10 Aug 2017

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Since the discovery of oil in Ghana in 2007, the fortune of the country’s Real Estate industry has grown significantly; with Ghana Investment Promotion Centre registering building and construction projects estimated at US$232 billion in 2016. This, in addition to an anticipated 170,000 Square Metres of prime office and retail spaces, and a rising profile of a luxury residential assets a...
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01 Mar 2017

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With two months into 2017 and economic indices yet to take the desired turn, the reality of another year in recession is gradually dawning on everyone – including the most optimistic economic pundits. While the one percent growth rate in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projected by the World Bank indicates some light to end of the tunnel – notwithstanding how deem – the big question mos...
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22 Feb 2017

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It is no news that the spate of kidnapping and abduction in the nation today is on the rise. As much as the appropriate authorities and government agencies are leaving no stone unturned in taming this ugly trend, the realities hit us in the face every day – with almost no newspaper going to press without a story about kidnapping and allied crimes. But do you know that in the chaos surrou...
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22 Feb 2017

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By: Ukeme Peters One of the major areas of contention between Facilities Management Companies and their customers is the demonstration of value. At one time or another in the course of their career, most Facilities Managers have had to prove value to their organisations or customers because in the first place; both parties did not align as to what value would be. At another level, FM cus...
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22 Feb 2017

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In different forms, every business – either Blue Chip Multinational or Small and Medium Scale Enterprise – has some form of Real Estate and Facilities Management (REFLM) objectives. For some, it might be saving cost through strategic management, while for others it might be expanding their asset for high employee/occupant productivity, etc. While some, particularly the Blue Chip Organisa...
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22 Feb 2017

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It is no news that one the major channels through which Foreign Exchange earnings leave Nigeria is medical tourism. In fact, a 2013 BusinessDay report revealed that 47% (18,000) of Nigerians, who visited India that year, did so for medical reasons and expended up to N41.6 billion. In addition, no one needs to be told that in spite of the fact that approximately 60% of the country’s healt...
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22 Feb 2017

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No one needs to be told the importance of electricity in our daily lives as individuals, communities and even as a nation. Just image a day without electricity; how would homes run? How would factories be powered? Imagine what will become of workplace productivity. This is one of the reasons, why in Facilities Management, Electricity is regarded and appraised as critical. What most peopl...
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22 Feb 2017

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The ravaging economic recession in Nigeria has, by default, tutored many organizations on how to be creative, innovative and also to realize the need to be cost-effective, to increase productivity and remain profitable. The implication of this is that, increasingly, organizations are concentrating on their core businesses while contracting out those aspects of the businesses they lack th...
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22 Feb 2017

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It is no news that one major channel through which Foreign Exchange earnings leave Nigeria is medical tourism. A 2013 BusinessDay report revealed that 47% (18,000) of Nigerians, who visited India that year, did so for medical reasons and expended up to N41.6 billion. It’s also a known fact that many of the facilities in which healthcare is provided in both public and private sectors are ...
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20 Feb 2017

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Giving the market conditions and economic situations that defined the Real Estate sector in 2016, no one needs to be told that it will take a different breed of talents, operational approaches and process strategies to stay afloat in 2017. Facilities Management is a very integral sub-sector of the Real Estate. In fact, it has been said that up to 80% of the Asset or Real Estate life-cycl...
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