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    Teaching Business Skills to Architecture Students; A Case for Curriculum Change
    (Journal of the Association of Architectural Educators in Nigeria, 2007-09) Lawal, Lateef Ademola; Abdulrahman, Mukaila E.
    The 21st century is characterised by advancement in technology, communication and globalisation. Critical and imperative to this advancement is opportunity for people to compete. This paper takes a look at teaching of business skills to architecture students. It examines entrepreneurship approach as an avenue for the architecture students to create and develop their own businesses as a way of addressing unemployment after graduation. The paper recognises that technological changes have had their impact on the practice of architecture hence the need for students to be imbued with IT architecture skills to enable them perform various tasks. The paper further identifies the decline in the number of architectural design competitions in schools of architecture. These competitions are vehicles for promotion and exposure of budding talents, so the paper advocates for their organization and resuscitation in schools of architecture in Nigeria.
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    Collapse of Buildings and the Application of Law in Nigeria
    (Proceedings of the School of Environmental Technology, Federal University of Technology, Gidan-Kwano campus,Minna, 2007-03-02) Lawal, Lateef Ademola; Lawal, Tajudeen Adeseye
    The spate of collapse of buildings in Nigeria is becoming more alarming and unprecedented, especially in the last one year resulting in an incalculable loss of human lives and materials. This paper takes a look at the issue of collapse of buildings and the application of law system in Nigeria. it examines the Lagos State Urban and Planning law as a tool to guarantee safe and healthy buildings in the building industry. Some of the causes of collapsed buildings are highlighted. This paper concludes that appropriate sanctions and punitive measures are needed to reduce the loss of both human lives and materials whenever a building collapses.