FG to construct 1mn houses annually, says Minister The Federal Government is to construct one million houses annually to meet the 17 million houses required in the country to house citizens.

The Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Ms Amal Pepple, gave the assurance on Monday in Bauchi while inaugurating 288 housing units tagged “Bauchi Unity Estate” constructed by Terraquest Development Company.

Pepple said the effort to build the houses was to provide cheaper and affordable houses as part of the transformation agenda of the Federal Government.

She said that the Federal Government had also embraced a new technology toward building the houses in all states of the federation.

The minister stated that various agencies of the Federal Government, including the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), Federal Housing Authority and Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development had embarked on various housing schemes for civil servants.

According to her, the State Governments were also doing good jobs in establishing housing estates towards providing adequate and affordable houses for their citizens. NAN

Now this news is rather annoying, when did it concern the govt to build homes? Like serious, GEJ what is wrong with your ministers?

When will these people repent from telling lies?

manny4life: Now this news is rather annoying, when did it concern the govt to build homes? Like serious, GEJ what is wrong with your ministers?

There is nothing wrong with government building homes. It is part of government responsibilities to give shelter to her citizens. The only issue is that, it may never materialised

The FG has been telling us these lies for a while now. We don't want no more lies . . . show us the million houses per year make we seem am.

E talki na do. Seeing is believing. Government of promises that are meant to be broken!

Does that mean more than half the population is homeless? This news is a lie.

Kobojunkie: The FG has been telling us these lies for a while now. We don't want no more lies . . . show us the million houses per year make we seem am.

Kobo the minister, showed us the houses during the ministerial chats to mark the 1st year of this administration. But it was for Nigerians on Nigerian tv, so it did or does not exist for nairaland? I watched the presentation. The houses are clustered into estates spread across Nigeria, Alot of them are FG partnerships with private investors.

Johndoe100:

Kobo the minister, showed us the houses during the ministerial chats to mark the 1st year of this administration. But it was for Nigerians on Nigerian tv, so it did or does not exist for nairaland? I watched the presentation. The houses are clustered into estates spread across Nigeria, Alot of them are FG partnerships with private investors.

How many houses did the Minister show to mark the first year of this administration as being the result of direct construction by the government and/or partnership with private investors?

Johndoe100:

Kobo the minister, showed us the houses during the ministerial chats to mark the 1st year of this administration. But it was for Nigerians on Nigerian tv, so it did or does not exist for nairaland? I watched the presentation. The houses are clustered into estates spread across Nigeria, Alot of them are FG partnerships with private investors.

Showed you 1 million houses that the article says ARE TO BE(future tense) constructed? kai!!!

The minister should keep quiet, and stop disturbing us with failed statement.