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The Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Aubrey Barker Fund (ABF) for

• ‘Invisible' e-waste hits $10b in essential raw materials recoverable • ‘60,000 tonnes of used equipment shipped to Lagos ports yearly'

The Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP), in collaboration with the Department of Climate Change (DCC) of the Federal Ministry of Environment, plans

The Lagos State government has expressed the need to reform and modernise real estate laws and regulations to meet the demands of investors and other relevant stakeholders in the built sector.

Led by PI Hoelscher, the project known as Political Change in African Cities (PACE) unites the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and partnering with the University of Bristol, University of Gothenberg, University of Lagos and UC Berkeley to identify how urban growth shapes political change, highlight the societal implications of these changes and determine their relevance for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

EFCC has continued to ensure estate surveying and valuation firms subscribe to an alert system and conduct screening before on-boarding customers as part of the ongoing due diligence to curb money laundering. The scrutiny is affecting transactions in the commercial real estate market, CHINEDUM UWAEGBULAM reports.

The Society for Planet and Prosperity (SPP), in collaboration with the Department of Climate Change (DCC) of the Federal Ministry of Environment, plans to showcase climate governance performance across 36 states of the federation this month. The project would provide a single rating and ranking report of the states’ performance, undertaken through climate change desk officers. SPP President, Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke, said the project builds on the mapping of the climate change impact, policy, and action of the states, which was executed by the team last year in collaboration with the DCC and the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF). Okereke said

Urges estate surveyors to curb exploitation of tenants The Senate Leader, Michael Bamidele, has advised professional bodies to advocate

As Borno faces a deepening climate crisis, the state's Climate Change Coalition, a broad partnership chaired by the State's Ministry of Environment has completed an action plan, which outlined strategies to combat the growing scourge of climate change.

Following concerns over dilapidating state of housing estates across the states, estate surveyors and valuers have pledged to introduce maintenance guidelines to sustain the estates.