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Engineer Adamu Ismaila of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) gave an insight into the way mass housing projects are run in the FCT. He said that the Development of Mass Housing(MH) Scheme in Abuja is based on Public Private Partnership (PPP) concept whereby Private Developers are provided with land on leasehold. According to him, the allocated land will be ...

‘With Nigeria’s capital expenditure profile put at 24 per cent of recurrent expenditure in 20 14, falling price of crude oil and a high cost of funds for execution of capital projects, the construction industry in Nigeria is obviously under pressure to evolve more time and cost efficient system of construction.” This was the submission of the Managing Director of ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday officially commenced the construction of 100,000 mass housing units for workers across the country. According to the government, the houses will be for workers in all states of the federation, adding that it was collaborating with the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress on the project. President Goodluck Jonathan said this while performing ...

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The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, unfolded the Federal Government’s plan to collaborate with other stakeholders in the housing sector to deliver about 10,000 housing units this year. The minister announced this at the inaugural Housing Stakeholders’ Implementation Summit in Abuja which held on March 23, 2014, where she also defended the government’s ...

The Senate last week stepped down the passage of the Social Housing Bill meant to provide mass houses for the poor and low income earners, citing faulty procedural and legal technicalities that would affect the implementation of the proposed law. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Housing and Urban Development, Senator Bukar Ibrahim, while presenting the committee’s report, had explained that ...