By Ladi Patrick
Viewpoint Housing Media Ltd, publisher of Viewpoint Housing News and Media Trust Ltd, publisher of Daily Trust newspaper are to jointly hold a conference that will tackle incidence of building failure in Nigeria.
The two media companies officially signed documents for the conference in Abuja on Friday.
The CEO of Viewpoint Housing Media Ltd, Mal Ahmed Goringo singed for his company while Head of Business Development, Media Trust Ltd, Mr AbdulRahman Husseini signed on behalf of Media Trust Ltd.
Husseini who expressed optimism that the conference will tackle the rising incidence of building collapse in Nigeria said his company is concerned about the incessant cases of building collapse across Nigerian cities.
“As a responsible corporate, we’re concerned. We believe that at the end of the meeting, incidents of building collapse will become a thing of the past,” Husseini said.
Similarly, the CEO of Viewpoint Housing Media Ltd described the numerous incidents of building collapse as a national disgrace, stressing that it is time stakeholders come together to end the phenomenon.
The event tagged Building Collapse Conference 2019 is slated for early December, 2019.
It is expected that key players in the construction sector from public and private sectors like facility managers, Federal Ministries of Works and Housing and Environment, REDAN, NIA, NIQS, QSRBN, NSE, NIOB, NBRRI, SON, FHA, Federal Fire Service, producers of building materials, and FMBN will be at the gathering.
The organisers are of the firm belief that resolutions at the conference, if taken and implemented will put building failure to check.
Checks by our reporter show that one of the issues that will feature prominently at the conference is failure to punish those culpable for the numerous reported cases of building collapse in Nigeria.
Viewpoint Housing News reports that this year alone, more than 10 cases of building collapse have been reported. Lagos tops the list of cities with the incidents.
