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The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said that the Federal Government will require about N2 trillion to complete no fewer than 226 ongoing road projects across the country.   Fashola made this disclosure in Lagos while speaking at a Town Hall meeting organized to brief the public on the activities of the government in the ...

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, on Saturday disclosed that the federal government has concluded on how it plans to build more houses for Nigerians in its mass housing programme and would soon launch the implementation strategies. Fashola spoke at the 46th annual conference of the Nigerian Institute of Estate Surveyors (NIESV) in Abuja. He also called for ...

The merger of three key ministries of Power, Works and Housing into one, is a disservice to the nation. This view was canvassed by Lagos-based estate surveyors and valuers who also faulted the non-appointment of one of their own as the Minister of Housing in view of the fact that they are best qualified and positioned to man the ministry. ...

Against the backdrop of the widening housing deficit in the country the need for governments at the federal and state level to see the issue of housing as an urgent matter of concern and priority cannot be over stressed. Just last week, the immediate past Governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) among other appointed Minsters, was assigned the ...

The long wait finally came to an end on Wednesday as President Muhammadu Buhari assigned his newly-appointed ministers offices. Of all portfolios assigned, that of the immediate past Governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has been greeted with mixed reaction, albeit more of positivity, goodwill, and expectations. Power, Works and Housing was assigned to the popularly tagged ‘workaholic’ ...

The long wait has finally come to an end as President Muhammadu Buhari today assigned his newly-appointed ministers offices. The ministers took turns in groups of four to take their oath at the presidential villa. The immediate past Governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Fashola, has been assigned the Minister of Power, Works and Housing while the immediate past Governor of ...

In Nigeria, having enough money to pay for the type of apartment you wish to rent for a period of time isn’t enough to secure you a decent rented apartment. So many other factors are considered such as age, gender, occupation, ethnicity, status, and so on. Today on #shelterMatters, we’d be dwelling on ethnicity. Speaking writing from a personal experience, ...

At the 2015 ministerial press briefing of the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure in Lagos, which was said to be the last for the second term of Governor Babtunde Fashola’s administration, the commissioner for works and infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat said the Lagos State Government constructed 281 roads between 2011 and now, while another 201 are currently undergoing construction. According ...

The Governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Raji Fashola, on Thursday said home ownership through mortgage was the only way to address the problem of housing deficit in the country. The governor spoke at the inauguration of Chois Estate, a housing estate in Lekki area of the state. NAN reports that the 420-unit estate of bungalows and duplexes was delivered by ...

Dwellers on Yeye Street, Iwaya in the Yaba area of Lagos State have petitioned the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, the state’s House of Assembly and the ministry of justice, among others on the alleged blockade of the street by one Alhaji Wahab Adamson It was learnt that Adamson fenced the area after a court ruling which vested on him ...