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The Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), Lagos State chapter, has taken a bold step to build a befitting secretariat in the metropolis. To meet that drive, and after series of consultations, the architects have decided to settle for a landed property in Akoka, Yaba, Lagos. However, it was gathered that, the professionals are currently engaging a law firm, which would ...

In a brief chat with Nigeria Real Estate Hub (NREH), the President of Nigerian Institute of architects (NIA), Tonye Braide, shares with NREH correspondent, some insight on  NIA’s Road map for the year 2016. Read below:   NIA is going to organise a professional development workshop on tourism development which is aimed at expanding the tourism assets of a particular ...

Architect Tonye Braide is the 26th President of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA). In this interview with Elsie Godwin of NREH, he pointed out the need for Architects’ project to be vetted by Architects stating that Architects should be the ones in the development control of all development control offices. He also mentioned strengthening the institutional base of the ...

Mr. Tonye Oliver Braide was on Saturday decorated president of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA). Braide’s investiture came at the close NIA Annual General Assembly and Conference in Abuja. Former NIA presidents led by the immediate past president, Mr. Waheed Niyi Brimmo administered the oath of office on Braide and decorated Braide with the presidential emblem. This resulted in ...

As part of their contribution towards stemming the tide of climate change and making Nigeria a safer place to live in, architects have been urged to familiarize themselves with eco-friendly designs, which have been said to impact positively on the earth and her people. Also, the architects, under the aegis of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), were advised to ...

At the First distinguished lecture series of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) which was held Thursday in Abuja, the former Vice President Alex Ekwueme, president of NIA between 1967 and 1968 deliver the first lecture entitled “Architecture Management and Participation of Architects in Nigeria’s Political Process.” Top issue among issues of discourse was architectural curriculum review Alex Ekwueme opened ...

Set to checkmate foreign incursion into its territory, the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), Lagos Chapter has begun extensive audit of all projects going on in the state. This is specifically to ensure that no foreign counterpart practices in Nigeria without fully complying with the International Union of Architects (UIA) Professional Practice Accord, and where deliberate disobedience to the pact ...

Inaugurated on the 1st of April 1960, the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) was established after a detailed planning of its structures and systems by an 8-member study group two years earlier. However, the idea for the formation of an autonomous organization for professional architects was first conceived by three Nigerians living and training in England in the early fifties. ...