Tag Archives: Buhari

“The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday said the Nigerian government would not use imported materials in its housing schemes.”- Premium Times Mr. Fashola said this at the Real Estate Investment Trust, REIT, Conference, held at the Exchange House in Lagos on Tuesday. Represented by a former finance commissioner in Lagos State, Ayo Gbeleyi, the minister ...

“The Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari, attaches great importance to meeting the housing need of Nigerians and in particular bridging the about 17 million deficit in the housing sector.”-Nigerian Tribune Speaking at a stakeholders meeting in Abuja, Oyo-Ita, said government was particularly concerned about the plight of most civil servants ...

“Nigeria’s mortgage lenders are buckling under the weight of unpaid loans as job losses and inflation, which are at a near record-high, hinder the ability of customers to settle their debts.”- Business Day “They are just struggling to survive,” Adeniyi Akinlusi, president of the Mortgage Banking Association of Nigeria, said in an interview in Lagos, the commercial capital. “A lot ...

Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos State Governor, on Wednesday said his administration’s plan to carry out a total reconstruction of the International Airport Road from Oshodi was being frustrated by the Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, who is Ambode’s predecessor as Lagos governor. According to Premium Times, Mr. Ambode, who spoke to Government House Correspondents at the Lagos House, shortly after carrying out ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will by March this year commission some of the projects the administration is executing in the South East geopolitical zone. Vanguard reports that some of the projects expected to be commissioned by the President include the on-going reconstruction of Enugu-Onitsha expressway and Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway, among others. According to Vanguard, the disclosure was made yesterday by the ...

The immediate past President of the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors, Mr. Bern Akhigbe, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to carry surveyors along in establishing grazing reserves, which his administration is proposing to create across the country. According to a statement made available to punhng correspondent on Friday, Akhighe made the call in his speech at the 2016 Annual General Meeting ...

Femi Adesina, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, says the president sold his property to access foreign exchange (forex) for his child’s education. Adesina, who could not confirm if the president got forex from official sources or the parallel market, said one would have to ask the president himself. Speaking in an interview with Osasu Igbinedion on The ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday tasked the 22 states governed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to build 250,000 housing units per annum. This, he said, is to meet up with the election campaign promise of providing one million houses for Nigerians yearly. He spoke at the opening session of the two-day National Economic Council (NEC) Retreat on the economy ...

Did Buhari win elections because of N5000 stipend promised? Why is there so much fuss about a 5000 naira stipend promised to the unemployed graduates in Nigeria that should never have been? Find out in this article. When Buhari made the campaign promise of N5000 stipend to unemployed Nigerians, to me it sounded like child’s play. In fact it was ...

More details are emerging about the social protection programmes of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, including a scheme to grant soft loans to about one million artisans and market women in the proposed 2016 budget, Premium Times report. A senior federal government official who described the current controversy in the Senate regarding two versions of the proposed budget as a “distraction ...