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The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, COREN, yesterday proposed death penalty for owners and quacks involved in the construction of any collapsed building in the country. The council also called for conduct of quality assurance of all cement manufacturing companies nationwide to stem the increasing rate of building collapse. COREN made the call before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on the investigation of the composition and pigmentation of cement in the country to stem the serial incidents of collapse buildings. COREN President, Ali Kasim, called for additional statutory powers that would enable the council to prosecute owners and quacks involved in the erection of structures that collapse. Kasim sought for inclusion of incidents of collapse building as criminal acts and stressed the need for imposition of stiffer penalties for those who engaged quacks for construction of any collapsed building. The president, however, no...

The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) has called for vigilance over the invasion of the estate agency practice by foreign interests and pseudo practitioners, otherwise called quacks. The institution notes that foreign estate agency practitioners, mostly from the United Kingdom, Dubai, France and the United States come into Nigeria, check into high-class hotels, advertise their presence in the newspapers, and thereafter invite prospective Nigerian investors to their suites in order to arrange property investment abroad for them. Worried about this development and its implications for its members whose profession as critical stakeholders in the Nigerian real estate sector is at risk, and the government whose economy is under threat with rumours everywhere of money laundering through real estate investment, the institution laments that the alarm it has raised in respect of this to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has not received any ...