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The minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and her Land and Housing counterpart, Mrs. Akon Eyakenyi, have differed sharply on the delay in the payments for completed projects in the Land and Housing sector in the last three years. The Association of Lands and Housing contractors, led by Alhaji Lawal Adewale, had taken its protest of non-payment to the Federal ...

Contractors handling Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) projects at the Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development blocked the entrance gate to the headquarters of the ministry at Mabuchi, Abuja, preventing vehicles and staff from going in and out of the office and demanding the payment of the arrears of the 2012, 2013 and 2014 contract sums of completed projects ...

Eight months ago, during the launch of the Nigeria Mortgage Refinancing Company, NMRC, the President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan promised to provide affordable housing to the millions of homeless Nigerians by the end of the second quarter of the year. This pledge was made good last week when the government launched the first 10,000 mortgages for  the presidential Initiative on ...