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Item An Evaluation of Compensation Processes on Compulsorily Acquired Lands for Infrastructural Facilities in South East Nigeria(IRE Journals, 2021-02-01) OBINEME, CHINAZA HENRY; UDOBI, ALEXANDER NNAMDI; IFEDIORA, CHRISTIAN OSITAAbstract- Compensation award for compulsorily acquired assets is to ensure equity that is the claimants (affected persons) are neither worse off nor better off than before the acquisition. The study was kick-started because of the increase in resistance by claimants. Questionnaire, interview instruments, document analysis and mostly from the use of questionnaires designed using Google forms were adopted. One hundred and twenty-two (122) Estate Surveyors and Valuers in addition to one hundred and eighty (180) property owners (claimants) all-in South-East Nigeria were sampled. Data obtained were analysed with the use of the following statistical tools: Relative Importance Indices (RII), Mean, Frequency and Percentage Distribution. Findings indicate that compensation delayed ranked first (RII = 5.00). This is followed by Lack of resettlement plan (RII = 4.96). And followed by compensation award insufficient to replace assets (RII = 4.57). Then, followed by demand of building plan as a criterion for payment (RII = 3.67) and others which triggers resistance by the claimants. The study recommends that best practices be adapted and effectively implemented, affected property owners should be fully involved in compensation process and as such given opportunity to be heard as well have their concerns acknowledged and addressed. The acquiring authority should adhere to compensation payment best practice criteria and the demand of approved building plan as criteria for compensation of any affected structure should be stop.Item Professionals’ Perspectives on Project Management Actions and Project-Related Factors Affecting Private Real Estate Projects Implementation Success in South East Nigeria(ICONIC RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING JOURNALS, 2019-09) IFEDIORA, CHRISTIAN OSITA; EGOLUM, C. C; EMOH, F. IAbstract- The success of any private real estate projects to a large depends on the commitment and/or determination of the professionals involved as well as all the stakeholders to ensure that such real estate project is successful regarding implementation. The variable that makes up project management actions and project-related factors to a large extent affects its implementation success; this work identified those variables, through Mean Item Score (MIS), the study ranked the impact of these variables and the extent they affect private real estate projects success. From the findings of the research, it could be observed based on analysis done using Chi-square, there was a significant relationship between project management actions, project-related factors and private real estate project implementation success using SPSS. On the ranking, result of the findings indicated that ineffective/wrong coordination process, project financing, overall managerial actions and variation of the project plan and size of the project were top most as well as highly ranked variables that affect private real estate project implementation in the study area. Its’ important to note that stakeholders should make concerted effort to ensure that all variable identified under project management actions and project-related factors are taken seriously in the handling implementation of any real estate project Index Terms- Factors, Professionals, Project management, Projects success and Real estate