The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the readiness to commence the sale of houses.
Gatekeepers News reports that the Federal Government announced the readiness to commence the sale of houses under the National Mass Housing Programme from N7.2 million naira.
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, stated this on Friday during the unveiling of an online portal for the housing scheme in Abuja.
Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing, launched the portal on Friday, explaining that the portal was opened in all 36 states, including FCT.
According to him, the government introduced the portal to ensure that all Nigerians who are desirous of owning any of the categories of the houses have equal opportunity to apply, own them and also to ensure transparency in the process.
“We urge government at all levels as well as Nigerians to use this opportunity and apply.
“We just converge to introduce the portal for the public to be able to apply for the National Housing Programme online with the website: https://nhp.worksandhousing.gov.ng.
“This will help implement the economic purpose and blueprint because by the time we are done with this idea, the country will not have a problem with the recession and that objective will be fulfilled.
“We have five phases of these projects. We are done with phase 1, and phase 2, we will soon be done with phase 3, and I want to emphasise that this will be the only solution to market these houses,” Fashola said.
The minister added that the houses were in one bedroom, two bedrooms, three bedrooms and Duplex categories. The cost ranges from N9 million to N16 depending on what a person wants, adding that it was not restricted to NHF subscribers alone.
“We have different contractors; first, medium size, which is the businesses owned by Nigerians.
