Land Tenure Changes & Home Ownership
President Yar’Adua approves development plan to facilitate housing delivery
Sep 2, 2008, 14:37
| | President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has granted approval for the commencement of action on a National Physical Development Plan, which is intended to integrate physical development with socio-economic plan.
Speaking through the Minister of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Hajiya Halima Tayo Alao, at the opening of the first Nigeria Urban Summit, in Abuja on Monday September 1, the President also disclosed that a National Housing and Urban Development Data Bank, aimed at facilitating speedy realisation of affordable housing for Nigerians is underway.
He stated that the full realisation of the seven-point agenda is dependent on effective performance of the nation’s urban settlements, adding that most towns and cities in the country are to undergo restructuring, so that they can play active role in the national development agenda.
He said that government is taking some bold steps to redefine and address the human settlement crisis in Nigeria as justification for her concern for urban development, noting that his administration is implementing urban development projects nationwide, coordinated under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), targeted at urban renewal and slum upgrading which impacts directly on lives of the urban poor.
While urging participants to come up with practical and sustainable solutions for managing cities, within the context of emerging national social and economic realities, President Yar’Adua reiterated government’s commitment to the development of cities that would in no distant time, become the nexus of commerce, cultural integration, technology and innovation like some of the emerging world cities of Asia and Middle East.
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