The federal government said it had designed mass housing estates
which would be built in the six geo-political zones in the country,
adding that the project would commence as soon as the 2016 budget was
passed.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who
disclosed this at the 9th Architects Colloquium conference in Abuja,
explained that the designs of the estates took cognizance of the
different environmental factors of each region.
The minister, who was represented by Mr. Sani Gidado, stated that in
the past, mass housing estates were built uniformly without
consideration for the peculiarity of the environment and the location of
the project.
He said for over 16 years, the government had stopped financing
housing projects directly, but the present government has reversed the
trend and is bent on financing mass housing across the six geo-political
zones.
Fashola said, “Over the last 16 years, the government has
deliberately stopped financing housing projects, but that has been found
to have created problems, especially for the low and medium income
groups. For that reason, the present government intends to provide
adequate funding for provision of houses projects directly. That is not
to say the private-public partnership would be discouraged, no.”
The President, Architects Registration Council of Nigeria, Umaru
Aliyu, called on the Federal Government to stop deploying architects on
national service in secondary and primary schools, saying this was
affecting the years of pupillage the young professionals were supposed
to have in order to sit for the professional competency examination.
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