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Expectations as El Rufai speaks on real estate sector challenges at RICS confab

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All eyes will be on Nasir El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State , who will be speaking on the challenges of real estate sector in Nigeria at a conference in Lagos. It is expected that, as a built environment professional, the governor will offer value along with useful insights.

The conference being hosted by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Nigeria Group has as theme, ‘Unravelling the Real Estate Sector Challenges in Nigeria: Regulation, Funding and Development’.

Besides Governor El Rufai—a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors and also of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FNIQS, FRICS)—who will be coming as keynote speaker, Jennifer Welch, RICD Director for  Africa, will also be speaking and updating members on RICS in Africa.

RICS is a global professional body and, according to Gbenga Ismail, the president of the Nigeria Group, the body promotes and enforces the highest international standards in the valuation, management and development of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure.

“As at 2018, there were RICS-qualified professionals in nearly 150 countries of the world. RICS accredits 125,000 qualified and trainee-professionals worldwide,” Ismail disclosed.

Ismail assured that “as professionals in the built environment, it is our belief that we have to influence and contribute to the make-up of this sector; this conference will not be another talk shop but a gathering of p professionals and stakeholders to dissect the persistent issues and then proffer workable solutions,”.