Members of the Association of Building Consultants and Artisans of Nigeria (ASBAN) have attributed incessant cases of building collapse to cheap labour and incompetent artisans in the building sector. The National President, Jimmy Oshinubi, disclosed this while addressing exhibitors at the Door, Window, Glass, Aluminium and Façade Exhibition (DoWin) held in Lagos. Oshinubi said that many artisans who are contracted…
THE United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, has said that UN-Habitat is failing to deliver sufficiently in cities, and its work in urban areas must be re-invigorated, as the General Assembly recently held a high-level meeting on a new UN approach to the rapidly urbanizing world. Ms. Amina Mohammed said in her opening remarks at the two-day event, “Today, we…
Amid pockets of social instability in different parts of the country, land prices have continued to rise in most regions while prices of office spaces and houses were affected negatively in the real estate market within the first half of this year. According to a report released by Northcourt real estate for the half year performance of the real estate management , the high cost …
Faced with the grim reality of a world in which up to one-sixth, of humanity- or some one billion people – exist without adequate shelter and basic services, governments around the globe are today pausing to marshall forces against the growing plague called homelessness. Nigerians live in an age where the world’s population will have grown to over seven billion…
Climate change is an adverse environmental phenomenon that is causing enormous concern all over the world. In this article we look at the adverse effects of climate change on Nigerian Built Environment. Climate change refers to some anomalies in the climate system that is a result of human activities. These anomalies include increase in the concentration of Greenhouse gases (GHGs),…
Urban populations have skyrocketed globally and today represent more than half of the world’s population. In this article, we look at the challenges of living in a slum area. In some parts of the developing world, the growth of the urban population has more-than-proportionately involved rural migration to informal settlements in and around cities, known more commonly as “slums”—densely populated…
Nigeria can reposition its 17 million estimated housing deficits to a buoyant source of economic prosperity if the National Housing Fund (NHF) and the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) can be well funded to provide affordable homes, according to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola. Speaking during a housing stakeholders meeting at the weekend in Abuja,…
The relevance of housing in urban and rural environment cannot be over-emphasised. It contributes to the attainment of physical and moral health of a nation, stimulates social stability, the work efficiency, and the development of the individuals. This articles examines the urban housing crisis in Nigeria. Previous responses to the urban housing crisis in Nigeria has failed largely due to…
The issue of climate change and its consequences is all over the media and has moved up the political agenda. Occurrence and severity of natural disasters increases daily. Flooding is one of the most common natural disasters in the world. The risk of flooding has always been present for buildings close to rivers or coasts but it has been growing…
This paper discusses a strategy and functional approach for the provision of low-cost housing for the urban poor in Nigeria. It notes the rapid rate of urbanization occurring in Nigeria, which is due mainly to massive rural-urban drift, and explosive urban population growth. A major consequence of this occurrence has been the deterioration of housing situation in the urban centres,…
