By Bennett Oghifo
There are growing cases where some developers do not deliver on their contract to build homes for subscribers, particularly those who have paid in full or follow the payment plan strictly.
Some subscribers said they had paid in full over three years ago for various housing units and were told several shocking stories, including, in some cases, that their homes would be constructed in the next phase. So, they wait for four years to today without seeing their homes or the plots of land they paid for, and worse, they have nobody to turn to for redress, because this huge housing market is still unregulated by the government.
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Chapter Chairman of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), Mr. Osilama Emmanuel Osilama has urged the federal government and the 36 State Governors, including the Minister of the FCT to reinvent and emulate the late Lateef Jakandeâs housing masterplan when he held sway both as Governor of Lagos State and Minister of Housing.
Addressing Housing Reporters on the state of housing and how to move the sector forward, over the weekend in Abuja, Osilama advocated for an innovative and creative collaboration synergy between members of the Real Estate Development Association of Nigeria (REDAN) and both State and Federal Governments on Public Private Partnership (PPP), platform especially in the face of COVID-19 Pandemic.
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The Federal Government has inaugurated the Sector Skills Council on Construction with the core mandate of tackling the skills and productive needs of the construction industry.
While delivering his speech at the occasion, the Honourable Minister of State for Works and Housing Engineer Abubakar D. Aliyu, (FNSE), who performed the inauguration pointed out that the establishment of the Sector Skills Council is a deliberate decision of the Federal Government to address the challenges of skills gap, skills supply, skills quality and skills demand of the building sector in the construction Industry.
The Minister spelt out the scope of their mandate as follows: Establishment and maintenance of strategy for the coordination and incorporation of emerging trends in skills development, Development of competency standards and qualifications, Developing a sector skill development plan and maintenance of skill inventory, influence how training is delivered in Nigeria, productivity improvement an
Housing Deficit: REDAN plans to construct 774,000 units
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By Chris Ochayi
Worried by over 17 million housing deficit facing the country, the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, REDAN, announced that it has concluded arguments to build 100 housing units in each of the 774 Local Government Areas in the country.
President of REDAN, Dr Aliyu Wamakko, who disclosed this while speaking with Vanguard in an interview in Abuja, said the association has concluded arrangements to sign a memorandum of understanding, MoU, with Family Homes Funds, FHF, to fund the projects.
Dr Wamako noted that REDAN has made several consultations with relevant stakeholders in the built industry in order to actualize the project.