Nigerian government begins allocation of 8,925 houses under national housing programme

The Nigerian government has announced the allocation of 8,925 houses to deserving applicants nationwide under the National Housing Programme (NHP), explaining that the first batch of the allocation process was concluded after a review of the conditions and procedures for sales of houses under the national housing scheme.

Penpushing reports that the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Marcus Ogunbiyi made this known in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as contained in a statement made available to journalists.

“Out of a total of 8,925 applications that were received,1,294 were for outright payment, 2,408 for mortgage, 2,184 for rent to own and 3,039 were for instalment payment modes. The offer of New Provisional Allocation Letters for the first batch of successful applicants under the Outright Payment mode are now ready’, Ogunbiyi said

‘The successful subscribers would be contacted by the Federal Controllers of Housing and Urban Development in the states as well as the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) from Thursday for collection’, he added.

Penpushing further reports that he explained that applicants under the Mortgage, rent to own and Instalment payment modes who should be subscribers to the National Housing Fund (NHF) were presently undergoing profiling.

The Permanent Secretary pointed out that there were no completed houses in Abia, Lagos, Bayelsa, Rivers states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), adding that allocation of houses in the listed states would be done after the completion of the housing units later in the year.

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