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The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, says road construction has enabled the government to create jobs and promote procurement. Fashola made this assertion on Tuesday during his inspection tour of the Jebba-Mokwa-Bokani road in Niger. The road is one of the five roads under construction listed for inspection during the two-day tour of the minister. Earlier, the ...

Olasunkanmi Dunmoye, South West Zonal Coordinator, Federal Government Housing Scheme, said about 4,500 residents were employed as skilled and unskilled labour in the construction of federal government housing project in Osun. Speaking during an inspection of the housing scheme on Tuesday in Osogbo, Dunmoye said that the project was being built for the masses on 10.6 hectares of land in ...

The ongoing National Housing Programme by the Federal Government in Benin, Edo, has generated over 3,000 jobs and empowerment to Nigerians within the locality. Ebemeata Ani-Otoibhi, the Team Leader, NHP, Edo, made this known on Tuesday in Benin while briefing newsmen after the inspection of the project. Ani-Otoibhi said that the ongoing project with about 12 different contractors has attained ...

The Ogun State Government says to a large extent, it has resolved the issue of unemployment in the state by creating over 500,000 jobs within the past seven years. The Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, stated this during the state’s Investors Forum in Abeokuta, the capital on Tuesday while listing his administration’s achievements so far. “I am sure since we have been ...

The president of Mortgage Bankers Association of Nigeria (MBAN), Mr Adeniyi Akinlusi has disclosed that each mortgage collected to build a house would create 35 direct and 35 indirect jobs. Akinlusi who stated this in an interview with LEADERSHIP Newspaper in Abuja described the mortgage system as a major hub for job creation. Giving a breakdown on how the jobs ...

The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) in Bayelsa, on Thursday, said it had provided job(s) for no fewer than 200 unemployed youths in road maintenance. Mr Bolaji Ayoola, the FERMA Road Maintenance Engineer in the state, made this disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa after inspecting some of the ongoing road projects in Bayelsa. He explained ...

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is poised to achieve significant reduction in unemployment rates in the country, through the construction of new skills acquisition centres as well as completion and rehabilitation of abandoned centres. Ngige made the disclosure to newsmen during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Federal Specialist Skills Acquisition ...

“The Federal Government said it has created 54,680 jobs in housing sector since inception in 2015. Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, who disclosed this at the sixth National Council on Land, Housing And Urban Development, in Abuja, noted that out of this figure, 13,680 people got direct jobs, while 41,000 got indirect jobs.”- All Africa ...

The Guardian reports that fresh efforts are underway to seek pragmatic and contemporary solutions to the challenges in the mortgage sub-sector, following plans by the operators to extend loss of job insurance scheme, which will cover mortgage default up to a year. The scheme is already in place and covers up to six months. Mortgage insurance, which is widely used in other countries and is compulsory ...

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode , the governor of Lagos State  made it known yesterday that through the construction of 114 roads which his administration, in collaboration with local councils across the state, embarked upon early this year, over 55,000 direct and indirect jobs were created. Ambode who was represented by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Toyin Suarau at the official commissioning ...