{"id":5928,"date":"2017-08-28T03:49:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T03:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/fg-engages-653-contractors-for-mass-housing-scheme\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T12:11:57","slug":"fg-engages-653-contractors-for-mass-housing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/fg-engages-653-contractors-for-mass-housing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"FG engages 653 contractors for mass housing scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_161185\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-600x338.jpg 600w\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161185 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161185 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fashola-BR-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babatunde Raji Fashola, Minister of Works, Power and <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">Housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In renewed effort to shore up national housing stocks, the Federal Government has engaged 653 contractors and employed 54,680 people to deliver 2,736 units of <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/really-nice-property-for-sale-in-nigeria\/\">houses<\/a> across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The projects planned in 33 states are part of the National Housing programme\u2019s pilot scheme, which is at various stages of completion. Among those employed for the housing projects are artisans.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde\u00a0Raji Fashola, who spoke in Abuja at the sixth meeting of the National Council on Land, Housing and Urban Development organized\u00a0 by the ministry in Abuja, urged the remaining states to key into the programme by providing lands to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting\u00a0was with commissioners from the 36 states of the federation in charge of works, housing and urban developments. According to him, the construction\u00a0was made possible because of the availability of land in those state was to fulfill commitments made in last year\u2019s council meeting held in Ilorin, Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>Fashola further\u00a0 lamented that some legal provisions in the country are too tight to the extent of not giving room for desired development targets and canvassed for the review of the provisions of the Public Procurement Act.<\/p>\n<p>Fashola stated that the Public Procurement Act restricts paying more than 15 percent mobilisation to contractors and\u00a0 sets conditions that overlook the level of literacy of the vast majority of the people and the nature of small businesses that they run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy experience in the last 20 months is that small businesses have difficulty complying with our procurement process and this requires not\u00a0 only policy reviews as I have ordered, but also legislative intervention by\u00a0 parliament\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that this is one of the actions the nation must take to fulfill the objectives of the\u00a0 theme of the Council so that the country can build for inclusion, for growth and\u00a0 for prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister further called for leveraging on the successes of co-operatives in housing programme, private sector capacity, strengthening of the Federal Housing Authority and Federal <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/mortgage-preapproval-guide-for-home-buyers\/\">Mortgage<\/a> Bank of Nigeria to play their roles so as to create housing economy away from housing deficit.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Muhammad Musa Bello also assured that policies had been put in place to enable residents within to have decent living accommodation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/fg-engages-653-contractors-for-mass-housing-scheme\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babatunde Raji Fashola, Minister of Works, Power and Housing. In renewed effort to shore up national &hellip; <a title=\"FG engages 653 contractors for mass housing scheme\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/fg-engages-653-contractors-for-mass-housing-scheme\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FG engages 653 contractors for mass housing scheme<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[15237,132,2890,1399,617,489,344,1442,1032,522,41,15282,15296],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-canva","tag-commission","tag-construction","tag-development","tag-house","tag-houses","tag-housing","tag-in-housing","tag-mortgage-bank","tag-nigeria","tag-property","tag-ross","tag-target"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fashola-BR.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":125170,"url":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/housing-news-today-stay-informed\/","url_meta":{"origin":5928,"position":0},"title":"Housing News Today","author":"Amazing Property","date":"April 19, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Housing News Today: What You Need To Know. 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