{"id":3276,"date":"2016-11-22T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2016-11-25T18:10:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:10:04","slug":"fg-receives-lands-from-27-states-for-mass-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/fg-receives-lands-from-27-states-for-mass-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Receives Lands From 27 States For Mass Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed on Monday in Lagos at the opening of the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0Commonwealth Public Relations Congress that the Federal Government says it has so far received lands from 27 states and is considering over 500 contracts for mass housing across the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The event organized by the Management School, London, and the Business Education Examinations Council, had the theme \u201cStrategic Management of Reputation Risk in an Interdependent World.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohammed, who was briefing the gathering on what the government was doing to better the lots of Nigerians, stressed that government was spending massively in infrastructural development.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot to tell Nigerians. Spending our way out of this recession<\/a>, we are investing massively in roads, railways, power, etc, and creating jobs in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome 200,000 of the 500,000 jobs promised under the N-Power Volunteers Programme will be filled from Dec. 1, 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of this, N-Power Teach\/Community will provide 150,000 jobs, N-Power Agro will provide 30,000 jobs and N-Power Health 20,000 jobs,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: Partnership to Reduce Housing Deficit in Nigeria<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The minister said that the Ministry of Water Resources is ensuring step up irrigation farming to address the challenge of longer depends on rain-fed farming. He also said that the government has re-mobilised contractors back to work on roads across the six geo-political zones.The road, according to him, included the Port Harcourt-Aba Road, Sokoto-Tambuwal- Makera-Kontagara Road, Ilorin-Jebba Road and Shagamu-Ibadan Road.Others were Abriba-Arochukwu-Ohafia Road, Abuja- Airport Road-Lokoja, and Ikot Ekpene Border-Aba-Owerri Dualisation.<\/p>\n

He said the\u00a0government had paid consultants supervising the roads that had been denied payment for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has helped to recover lost jobs, and put some money back in circulation, as part of a government strategy to build out of this recession.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

On power, Mohammed said that as at Nov. 5, the nation recorded a peak generation of 4,010 MW, without the 3,000 MW lost to gas pipe vandalism, that would have taken power generation to an unprecedented 7,000MW plus.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: How Government Housing Policies Affect Low Income-Earners<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

He said work is in progress to repair and restore the damaged gas pipelines, and also to fast-track emergency gas supply to power stations.<\/p>\n

The minister said the administration had also boosted its anti-corruption fight with the establishment of the inter-agency Presidential Committee on Asset Recovery (PCAR) to coordinate asset recovery process.<\/p>\n

He explained that the committee, headed by the Vice President, is collating and categorizing recovered assets, verifying records and status of physical assets to avoid re-looting.<\/p>\n

On insecurity, Mohammed said the administration had achieved a feat that the United Nations, as well as the US, had applauded.<\/p>\n

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Source: The Nation\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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