World Cities Day was marked by an unprecedented 70 cities globally this year with the main event co-hosted in the British city of Liverpool by the local council, UN-Habitat and the city of Shanghai. Ministers, mayors, national and local government officials, leading academics, journalists and representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations ...
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Chinedum Nwajiuba commissioning the equipment while the Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Professor Onuegbu Ugwu and the domor, Ngozi Eli-Chukwu and others watch with keen interest The Vice-Chancellor of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, Professor Chinedum Nwajiuba, yesterday, commissioned some engineering equipment, made up ...
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State KANO State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the World Bank to construct 500 kilometres of roads in rural areas of the state. A statement by Abba Anwar, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, made available to newsmen in ...
The United Nations, through the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund, has allocated US$9 million to provide life-saving aid to some 60,000 children, women and men recently displaced by ongoing hostilities in Borno State, including $2 million in support of the UN Humanitarian Air Service for frontline responders in north-east Nigeria. The ...
The Lagos High Court has liberated the Ajiwe community in Ajah in Eti-Osa Local Govt Area of Lagos State, from the Olumegbon Family’s claim of overlord. In a landmark judgment delivered by the Honourable Justice Ronke Harrison, the Court held that there was no basis in law, upon which ...
The Chairman, Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (EVARBON), Mr. Olayinka Sonaike, has died. Among other responsibilities, ESVABORN is charged with registering persons who are fit and qualify to serve and practice as estate surveyors and valuers; and also regulate the knowledge and the general practice of ...
Director Financial Intelligence Unit EFCC, Mr. Usani Francis (left); Director Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering Efcc, Mr. Bamanga Bello; President Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyor and Valuers, Dr. Bolarinde Patunola- Ajayi; and National Publicity Secretary NIESV, Mr. Charles Ebiai, during a one day workshop of stakeholders in property ...
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has claimed ownership of Flat 7B in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, where large sums of money were found. The sums found in the flat, which were forfeited to the Federal Government on June 6, are $43,449,947 (about N13billion), N23, 218,000 and £27,800 (about N10.6milion). In ...
The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) biennial conference and General Meeting will hold this month at NAF Conference Centre and Suites, Gwarimpa Expressway, Kado, Abuja. With a theme, Developing the Economy for Sustainable Growth-The Construction Industry as an Effective Stimulant, the international event will be declared open by ...
A key tool for African cities dealing with complexities such as informal settlements or tight restrictions on land ownership will be updating the continent’s archaic urban laws and legal process — much of which remains mired in colonial-era regulations that were never relevant in the African context in the ...