{"id":147022,"date":"2025-01-20T22:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T22:19:48","slug":"minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget","title":{"rendered":"Minister seeks more funds for Renewed Hope Cities in 2025 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, has called for increased funding for seven critical housing sector programmes.<\/p>\n<p>These projects, he said, include the Renewed Hope Cities and Estates Housing Programme, Slum Upgrading and Urban Renewal Programme, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Dangiwa made the appeal during the budget defence session of the Senate Committee on Housing, held on Monday at the National Assembly Complex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to request that the Distinguished Chairman and Members of this very important Committee use their good offices to increase the budgetary allocation in seven key areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is in view of the fact that these areas are very critical to the transformative policies and programmes of Mr President, aimed at putting the economy on the path of recovery and growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is pertinent to state here that in the 2024 fiscal year, the sum of N162.609 billion was allocated to our Ministry, which was considered inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet, we have been given an envelope of N83.752 billion as the Ministry\u2019s Capital Budget Ceiling for 2025, which is far below even the 2024 appropriation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dangiwa, the Renewed Hope Cities and Estates Housing Programme is designed to act as a catalyst for economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe construction and development of these new areas will generate employment opportunities, stimulate local businesses, and attract investments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 50,000 units planned under Phase I will create 1,250,000 direct and indirect construction jobs for architects, engineers, plumbers, iron benders, masons, and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is in addition to the value chain effect of purchasing and supplying building materials and other businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, we have covered 12 states and would like to cover 18 states, with 250 units per site. The amount needed to achieve this is N108 billion, at N6 billion per state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Slum Upgrading and Urban Renewal Programme also required increased budgetary allocation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently, there are ongoing programmes in four states within each geopolitical zone, including the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means four sites in four states of each geopolitical zone, along with four sites in the FCT, bringing the total to 100 sites. At least N100 billion is needed to achieve better results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dangiwa further highlighted the ministry\u2019s significant liabilities, which stem from completed and duly certified projects that could not be paid for by the end of the budgetary year due to limited funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a need to make adequate provision for liabilities to enable the Ministry to reduce its exposure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry has over N92 billion in liabilities but would need nothing less than N60 billion in the 2025 budget to mitigate this burden,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Housing, Senator Aminu Tambuwal, assured the minister of the committee\u2019s support in addressing the liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will support you by making sure that we work together to approach the Minister of Finance, the Budget Office, and even the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will explore how best we can secure debt relief for the Ministry and for our contractors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, has called for increased funding for seven critical housing sector programmes. These projects, he said, include the Renewed Hope Cities and Estates Housing Programme, Slum Upgrading and Urban Renewal Programme, among others. Dangiwa made the appeal during the budget defence session of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":147021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[14055,11218,254,15597],"class_list":["post-147022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-2025-budget","tag-ahmed-dangiwa","tag-nigeria","tag-renewed-hope-cities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Minister seeks more funds for Renewed Hope Cities in 2025 budget - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, has called for increased funding for seven critical housin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Minister seeks more funds for Renewed Hope Cities in 2025 budget\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, has called for increased funding for seven critical housin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-20T21:11:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-29T22:19:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737398674.544273.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1184\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"672\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Minister seeks more funds for Renewed Hope Cities in 2025 budget\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-20T21:11:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-29T22:19:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget\"},\"wordCount\":520,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1737398674.544273.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2025 budget\",\"Ahmed Dangiwa\",\"Nigeria\",\"Renewed Hope Cities\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/minister-seeks-more-funds-for-renewed-hope-cities-in-2025-budget\",\"name\":\"Minister seeks more funds for Renewed Hope Cities in 2025 budget - 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