PRESIDEBNT Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his administration’s commitment towards addressing housing problem in the country, just as the Shelter Afrique raised alarm over looming crisis in housing sector in Africa. The President stated that for the government to avert housing crisis in Nigeria by the year 2020, it had kicked start the process by earmarking N40b in this year’s capital budget for a comprehensive housing programme for the low income earners in the country, while still retaining housing standard.

Worried by the spate of building collapse in Lagos, members of the Lagos state branch of the Nigerian Institution of estate surveyors and valuers NIESV have taken the ‘fight’ to prevent building collapse in the state to Oba of Lagos, HRM Alaiyeluwa Rilwanu Akiolu 1 for his intervention.

Against the backdrop of the need to create new settlements, towns, boost socio-economic activities in rural areas and reduce rural-urban migration, Lagos state government plans to build 50 housing units in each Local Government Area of the state.

AGAINST the backdrop of Nigeria’s low ranking on the World Bank’s business index which is attributable to service delivery issues and bureaucratic bottlenecks, there is a need to put in place systems and policies that will create a one-stop shop to facilitate unhindered and secured access to all factors of production particularly land.

BUILDING materials constitute a key element in housing construction.