The federal government has said that its plan for public sector workers to own their own houses has now reached advanced stage.
The Minister of State Power, Works and Housing, Alhaji Mustapha Baba Shehuri, made this known in Minna Niger State at the commissioning of the Federal Mortgage Bank- Sea Mountain 133 unit housing estate on Tuesday.
Shehuri did not give details of the plan but submitted that it was part of government’s plans to bridge the 16m- 17m housing deficit in the country and that the objective should be realised over the next three years.
The minister also disclosed that “National Housing Models have been designed and approved for each geo- political zone, taking into cognizance our cultural diversities and climatic conditions in our choice of houses”.
Details later…
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