Nigerians can now apply for houses built under the current Federal Government’s National Housing Programme in 34 states of the country following the launch, Friday, of the portal by the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, through which interested members of the public could apply for allocation.
The minister told his audience, “We converge here just to introduce a portal on which the National Housing Programme pilot will be offered for sale to the public. What that means is that we will not be selling printed forms, the forms are online and this allows for more openness, limits human intervention and any disposition to any underhand practice”.
Mr Fashola, who described the launch of the portal as “the end game of our economic objective”, explained that the government did not just set out to build houses, adding that the project has served many purposes, the first of which was to test what sort of houses Nigerians would like to live in so as to make policies to guide its agencies and parastatals, as well as other stakeholders, to build what could be acceptable in the markets.
The findings, he said, were that while in the Northern part of the country there was preference for bungalow and large expanse of land which encouraged building horizontally, in the Southern part, there seemed to be acceptance for blocks of flats and lack of space which made building vertically necessary.
Hon. Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN , Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works and Housing, Mr. Babangida Hussaini ,President, Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mr Mustapha Isah , Special Assistant on Digital/New Media to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Tolu Ogunlesi , Director, Press and Public Relations, Mrs Boade Akinola , Director, Public Buildings and Housing,Arc.
In his goodwill message after the launch, President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors , Mr Isah, commended the Federal Government for its commitment to housing delivery. He also commended the Minister for the innovations he has brought to bear at the national level, which, according to him, was a replication of his development initiatives as Governor in Lagos State.
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