The Federal Authorities, by way of the Ministry of Housing and City Growth, will spend N4.1 billion from the 2024 funds on upgrading slums in 24 areas in 18 states.
Below the undertaking, the federal government will present water provide to the chosen slums, photo voltaic road lighting, rehabilitation of entry roads, development of sewerage programs, and waste administration and sanitation.
Recall that final month, the Minister of Housing and Rural Growth, Ahmed Dangiwa, on the twelfth assembly of the Nationwide Council for Land, Housing and City Growth, pledged to rewrite the narrative of housing and concrete improvement within the nation by stopping the proliferation of slums.
“For the Slum Upgrading Program, the ministry plans to improve 26 slums within the six areas of the nation and the Federal Capital Territory, to enhance the residing requirements of the slum dwellers and concrete poor by offering key infrastructure and assist companies ,” Dangiwa mentioned.
An evaluation of the doc revealed that the ministry would embark on city renewal and slum upgrading involving the development/rehabilitation of roads, culverts and drains in Ondo, Sokoto, Katsina, Kano, Yobe, Kwara, Lagos, Bauchi, Enugu are accomplished. Uyo, Akwa-Ibom, Adamawa, Osun states and the Federal Capital Territory.
City renewal and slum modernization involving the availability of photo voltaic road lighting could be applied in Imo, Edo, Ogun, Ekiti, Yobe, Katsina, Ondo and the FCT.
In the meantime, the ministry has made out there the sum of N18.19 billion for the development of 20,000 models beneath the revamped Hope Agenda housing plan and 200 million for the Nationwide Social Housing Fund to implement numerous housing initiatives aimed toward decreasing the variety of homeless folks.
Additionally, N1.8 billion has been put aside for the institution of native clusters for the manufacturing of constructing supplies within the six geopolitical zones of the nation.
