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  Nigerian workers are increasingly giving up hopes of owning their own homes, as issues of poor salaries, unfavorable working environment and conditions linger.  Most workers have for long contended with the exploitative tendencies of house owners, who increase rents randomly. This is in addition to the soaring cost of land and building materials. Indeed, the workers have taken their destinies into their own hands when it comes to the fundamental issue of housing.  The beauty of working is to retire into one's own home, with the assistance of the government. The provision of housing loans to be paid back installmentally is desirable, but this is not the case.  Interestingly, the National Housing Fund(NHF) seems to be a method the government introduced to evade its responsibilities. The housing fund without doubt is an imposition by the Federal Government of Nigeria, in a bid to run away from its responsibilities to provide either affordable housing schemes for Niger...

  The Federal Government has been called upon to account for the deductions of the National Housing Fund from workers' salaries. This call was made by a former chairman of the Oyo state council of the Trade Union Congress(TUC), Comrade Andrew Emelieze. ''The National Housing Funds deductions from the salaries of workers has been non-functional as workers do not have access to the loans as a result of the stringent conditions attached to the loans. The government should account for the deductions, otherwise the widespread feeling is that the NHF is a ploy to swindle workers of their hard-earned money,''Comrade Emelieze stated. Similarly, the N35,000 wage award  cannot solve the problems workers are presently experiencing. This assertion was made by a former chairman of the National Union of Allied Health Professionals(NUAHP) University College Hospital(UCH)Ibadan, Nigeria, Comrade Olusegun Sotiloye. There is no way that N35,000 can alleviate the sufferings o...

Millions of Nigerians have remained without suitable and comfortable homes due to the incompetence of Those-in-Charge to provide affordable houses for the impoverished populace. Indeed, political office holders have over the years facilitated the activities of criminally minded Esate Agents and land grabbers in many states, while the Judiciary may have for long been acting out the scripts of their paymasters. How can a Chief Executive appeal to Nigerians to live in peace with criminals in several communities? A number of state governments have now turned the real estate sector to a revenue generation point, while citizens have continued to tell those who care to lsiten unending tales of woe. Interestignly, an unspecified number of cases and incidences of fraudulent practices by illegal practitioners in the real estate sector have overwhelemed police stations and court rooms across the land. Sadly, a few state governments have successfully made the real sector unattractive to invest...