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Daniel Adaji
The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), the Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON), and the Council of Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (COMEG) have signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding.
The MoU aims to deepen cooperation, synergy, and regulatory effectiveness in Nigeria’s construction and built environment sector.
This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday by Ojonugwa Haruna, Head of Corporate Advancement & Public Relations at COREN.
The agreement was formally signed by Prof. Sadiq Abubakar, Chairman of COREN; Dr. Samson Opaluwah, Chairman of CORBON; and Prof. Zacheus Opafunso, Registrar/CEO of COMEG, on Thursday.
“This MoU is more than a ceremonial gesture; it is a bold, proactive commitment to safeguarding public interest by strengthening professional accountability and closing regulatory gaps in the industry,” Sadiq said.
He noted that the collaboration will enable the agencies to pool resources, share intelligence, and coordinate enforcement mechanisms to ensure that engineering, building, and geoscience practices in Nigeria meet global standards and effectively address the nation’s developmental challenges.
This move follows a separate signing of an MoU between CORBON and COREN focused on fostering collaboration, improving infrastructure quality, and strengthening professional standards.
At that signing ceremony, Opaluwah said, “This signposts a milestone in our joint endeavours to foster professional excellence, collaborative delivery and the optimisation of human resources in the built environment.”
He added that the partnership aims to “maintain the highest levels of professionalism and the deployment of the best expertise in the development and management of our country’s infrastructure.”
Highlighting the urgent need to bridge regulatory ggaps, he stated, “If we envisage that we are going to be competitors and we’re going to be confronting ourselves, Nigeria is going to lose. Nigerians will lose. Our economy will go down.”
The agencies emphasised that the MoU represents “a proactive step towards building a stronger, safer, and more professionally accountable construction ecosystem through unified oversight and shared responsibilities.”
The event was attended by key figures in the sector, including the Registrar of COREN, Prof. Okorie Uche; the Registrar of CORBON, Adetunji Adeniran; and the Managing Director of Tectonics Engineering Group, Aisha Gombe.