The Federal government has reiterated it’s commitment to the realization of the 7 point reform agenda as it affects housing, urban development and environmental concerns.

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The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), yesterday in Abuja embarked on site tours to Wuye ultra modern market, where it urged the developer to ensure council’s standards are followed while constructing the market in order to avoid building collapse.

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This article is a disclaimer to a publication serialised in the Kaleidoscope column of The Guardian newspapers of Sunday, February 2008 and March 2, 2008. The title of the said article is, "Urbicide: Lagos and the Crisis of the Megacity" written by Samuel James. My diagnosis and prognosis of the publication reveal that it is a derivative of the author’s research findings: "Lagos, Nigeria –The Megacity Crises" submitted to the Institute of Global Leadership of the Tufts University. The article is riddled with signs of implosion that indicate that the author has not carried out adequate research on the crises of megacity in Lagos. The goal of this write-stuff is to flash the fault-lines in the Samuel James’s research and to as well flush its flaws and faultiness.

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Mrs Halima Tayo Alao, the Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, says government is determined to find a lasting solution to the problem of high cost of building materials.

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Today, Food Culinary Tourism has assumed a global dimension. It has become a new niche in Tourism constituting an indispensable consequence in Travel and Destination Marketing. Food Tourism is the role of food in tourism and tourism in food. The concept explicitly connects food to tourism and tourism to food and both can be rural and urban. Local food has become the number one motivating factor in choosing a tourism destination. Dinning and wining are vital components of the tourism experience and increasingly being seen as prime travel motivator. Every tourist/visitor eats at least twice a day. Dinning has become one of the top three favourite activities of tourists and visitors and dining experience has the greatest potential of making lasting impression on a place.

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Road construction companies working in collaboration with the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), will henceforth be blacklisted and have their licenses withdrawn if found perpetrating corrupt practi-ces, the Desk Officer of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), in the Agency, Mr. Lucky Nwogu, said.

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Unless Nigerians derive climate friendly mechanisms like turning-off of electric bulbs when not in use, buying a fuel-efficient vehicle, getting rid of old refrigerators as some solutions to global warming, the country will continuously get warmed, Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, has warned.

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The Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) in association with the Nigerian Urban Forum has organised a pre-summit stakeholders roundtable conference as part of activities for the first edition of the Nigerian Urban Summit scheduled for July, 2008.

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For the Federal Capital Territory to be commercially viable and self sustaining, the government has to improve the infrastructural facilities and amenities, the Abuja Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ABUCIMA) has said.

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There is no season when new migrants would not flock to Abuja to start their careers. They begin the search for their dream apartment, real estate agents say, with the same single-minded determination that they will make it.

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The secondary mortgage market which affords property owners to trade in their property for refinancing in the country is virtually non-existent which resulted in some bottlenecks faced in housing delivery, Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development said in Abuja yesterday.

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Global Formwork, the project initiator of the $600 million Malaysian Gardens Housing project situated in the Saraji District of Abuja will today conduct a site- tour of the progress being made in the on-going construction works at the site to the Nigerian public, a statement from the company has said.

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Direct Labour as the name implies, involves using own resources of materials, equipment and labour in the execution of engineering works as opposed to elements of overheads and profits. Direct labour method in engineering words is as old as the engineering profession, because contracting grew out of the need to attain higher standards of workmanship using specialists in each trade. Other reasons include the need for better managed construction, need for high quality finished products, need for timely completion of construction, better coordination and better possibility of being able to forecast construction period of each element and hence of a whole construction project more accurately.

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FCDA is required by law to pay full compensation to any property owner the value of his development and also issue him an alternative plot as a replacement for the one revoked or demolished one for overriding public interest, or as a solution to a dispute not caused by the developer whose property is so affected so long as he possesses all the valid documents. As sanctioned by the law being an application of the common sense, nothing is more reasonable than such a rule.

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Dualization of the evercongested Ibadan Abeokuta road will commence in 2009, the Deputy Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon. Kazeem Ayilara, has disclosed.

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The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), with a con-sortium of road maintenance engineering experts, ToruEbi Konsult of Ontario, Canada, has concluded a 3-day training programme for FERMA Chief Maintenance Engineers in their effort to find a lasting solution to road maintenance in the country.

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Nasarawa State has come alive again. Bulldozers are roaring through the hitherto sleepy communities of Gitata, Karu, Panda; Doma, Akwatta Angbashi; Toto, Umaisha; Agyaragu; Kadarako, Giza; Nasarawa Eggon -Mada Station among others. "They are clearing the path to development," Usman Dogo told Daily Trust at the Doma end of the Doma-Akwatta-Agbashi-Benue border road site penultimate week. The occasion was the flag-off ceremony of the construction of the stretches of road that has no doubt become a nightmare to several communities along its route.

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The Federal Government has expressed dismay over the way Lagos state government has embarked on launching of the Eko Atlantic city project without its [FG’s] consent.

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The Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs. Halima Tayo Alao, has called for more collaboration between Nigeria and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in order to tackle environmental hiccups in the country.

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Any moment from now, bulldozers from the Lagos State Ministry of Environment will swoop on some buildings in Ajegunle in a massive demolition of over 200 structures built on drainage channels in the area.

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