UN Plans To Support NGO Build 400,000 Housing Units.

United Nations says it is planning to support NGO, Global Centre for Empowerment and Care for Life Challenges to build 400,000 housing units across the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory.

The move, according to the Centre, is part of efforts towards meeting the United Nation’s’ Sustainable Development Goals goals number 9 and 11, which are innovation and infrastructure, and sustainable cities and communities respectively in Nigeria by 2030. 

Speaking at the project’s public launch in Kaduna state, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Centre, Dr. Vincent Ejikeme Agbo, said under the project, 10,000 housing units would be built in each of the 36 states and the FCT in two phases, adding that, the project, which will in the nearest future be extended to other African countries, will stimulate socio-economic and developmental efforts of the country’s Federal and State governments.

According to Chairman, the vision and mission in the incorporated Global Centre for Empowerment and Care for Life Challenges, is in-tandem with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to promote, advocate, initiate, enlighten and create beneficial interest for the general public towards Real Estate Housing and Industrial Development within the purview of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals SDG 9 and 11.

He also said, his team has begun interacting with governors of the 36 states and the minister of the FCT, to ensure smooth execution of the project.