{"id":2399,"date":"2017-03-24T23:37:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T23:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/?p=2399"},"modified":"2017-03-24T23:37:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T23:37:59","slug":"fg-suspends-work-national-housing-programme-site-ekiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/fg-suspends-work-national-housing-programme-site-ekiti\/","title":{"rendered":"FG suspends work at National Housing Programme site in Ekiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The Federal Government on Thursday ordered the suspension of work on the National <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">Housing<\/a> Scheme, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, gave the ordered when he visited Ado-Ekiti on inspection of Federal Government projects in the state.<\/p>\n<p><!-- between content ad --><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_445735\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 412px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-445735\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fashola.jpg?resize=412%2C250\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fashola.jpg 412w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fashola-300x182.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"250\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" \/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-445735\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fashola.jpg?resize=412%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fashola.jpg 412w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fashola-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fashola<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He expressed dissatisfaction over the terrine, accessibility and the remote location of the project site.<\/p>\n<p>The minister blamed the Federal Controller of Housing in the state for failing to brief the ministry properly before starting work on the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I give you a house or relocate your office to this place, will you like it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince you will not like it, why then did you choose to build for Nigerians here?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter today, let every work on this site be suspended for us to take stock of what has been done,\u2019\u2019 Fashola said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the decision of the ministry on whether to approach the state government for a better location or continue with the project will depend on the outcome of the stock taking.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti, who accompanied Fashola to the project site, said he was not informed before work started on the project.<\/p>\n<p>The project, under the National Housing Programme in Ekiti, comprised of 24 units of two bedroom flats, 16 units of three bedroom flats and six units of one bedroom flats.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that 12 different contractors are handling various aspect of works at the project site.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to provide affordable <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/really-nice-property-for-sale-in-nigeria\/\">houses<\/a> to Nigerians, the Federal Government in February announced plan to construct 5,000 units of houses in each state over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>The project, according to the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Mustapha Shehuri who spoke in Jalingo, Taraba, the scheme would be financed by the Federal <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/mortgage-preapproval-guide-for-home-buyers\/\">Mortgage<\/a> Bank of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2017\/03\/fg-suspends-work-national-housing-programme-site-ekiti\/\"> link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government on Thursday ordered the suspension of work on the National Housing Scheme, Ado-Ekiti, &hellip; <a title=\"FG suspends work at National Housing Programme site in Ekiti\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/fg-suspends-work-national-housing-programme-site-ekiti\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FG suspends work at National Housing Programme site in Ekiti<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[981,617,489,344,362,3058,1032,522],"class_list":["post-2399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-a-house","tag-house","tag-houses","tag-housing","tag-housing-programme","tag-location","tag-mortgage-bank","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Fashola.jpg?fit=412%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}