{"id":5700,"date":"2017-06-01T14:41:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T10:43:36","slug":"civil-servants-to-become-landlords-in-sokoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/civil-servants-to-become-landlords-in-sokoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Servants To Become Landlords In Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Civil servants in Sokoto state<\/strong>, Nigeria will most likely be all smiles ever since the government of the state announced that it will sell houses to civil servants occupying them on\u00a0owner-occupier basis.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner\u00a0of Lands, Housing and Survey\u00a0Alhaji Bello Gwiwa, made this known at a ministerial press briefing to mark Gov. Aminu Tambuwal\u2019s second year in office on Sunday, 21 may, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>CHECK OUT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-rent\/abuja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOUSE FOR SALE IN ABUJA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Bello Gwiwa, the Commissioner of Lands, Housing and Survey, disclosed this in Sokoto on Sunday, at a ministerial press briefing to mark Gov. Aminu Tambuwal\u2019s second year in office.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner listed the houses to be sold to include those at the parliamentary quarters, Yauri flats, Runjin Sambo housing estate, Arkilla quarters, Gwiwe intermediate housing estate and G-quarters.<\/p>\n<p>CHECK OUT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-sale\/lagos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HOUSE FOR SALE IN LAGOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Others included the government houses behind UBA quarters, temporary site quarters, among others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tolet.com.ng\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tolet-need-to-find-na-small-tin.jpg\" alt=\"tolet-need-to-find-na-small-tin\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor has already set up a committee to ascertain the houses involved, assess their costs and recommend the prices and modalities for payment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the commissioner in the housing ministry and head of the committee, I can tell you that we have completed our assignment and will submit the report this week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/new-lagos-rent-to-own-housing-scheme-for-low-income-earners\/\">New Lagos Rent-to-Own Housing Scheme for Low-Income Earners<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official said that the gesture would minimise accommodation problems faced by the workers, adding that 1000 additional houses were being constructed at Gidan-Man Ada and Gidan Solanke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the 1000 houses are completed, they will equally be sold to the workers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/rent-vs-buy-why-buying-always-wins\/\">Rent vs Buy; Why Buying Always Wins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gwiwa said that 500 houses, recently inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari, would soon be sold to the workers on owner-occupier basis, and promised to be fair to all in the housing sales exercise.<\/p>\n<p>He said that government was also concerned about the rising congestion in Sokoto metropolis and had resolved to relocate auto mechanics to various mechanic villages.<\/p>\n<p>CHECK OUT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-sale\/kano\">PROPERTIES FOR SALE IN KANO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The commissioner said that nine new cemeteries were being established in Sokoto city and environs to address the shortage of burial grounds in the affected areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tolet.com.ng\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/tolet-need-to-find-na-small-tin.jpg\" alt=\"tolet-need-to-find-na-small-tin\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Civil servants in Sokoto state, Nigeria will most likely be all smiles ever since the government of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,32],"tags":[1016,1015,1014,1017,1013,511,1012],"class_list":{"0":"post-5700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-real-estate-news","9":"tag-alhaji-bello-gwiwa","10":"tag-aminu-tambuwal","11":"tag-civil-servants","12":"tag-commissioner-for-lands-housing-and-survey","13":"tag-owner-occupier","14":"tag-rent-to-own","15":"tag-sokoto","16":"cs-entry","17":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}