Sanwo-Olu admits housing deficit, commissions 270 home units in Egan-Igando estate

• Gives N10m currency grant to LASU’s champion graduating student
• Says information brings retired prime

Lagos State Government, successful its determination to supply decent, affordable lodging for residents, has commissioned a 270-unit (Cluster 1) Housing Estate astatine Egan successful Igando-Ikotun Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State.

The authorities governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who spoke during the authoritative commissioning of the estate, said the landmark task marks a important milestone successful the ongoing committedness to providing affordable and prime lodging for the radical of Lagos State.Sanwo-Olu said that to destruct the shortage and execute a 21st-century economy, determination is simply a request to spouse with backstage investors to span the lodging gap.

He noted that the lodging shortage successful Lagos State is real, but his medication is determined to trim it by implementing policies that guarantee the availability of decent homes for all, careless of ethnic, religious, oregon governmental affiliations.

The Commissioner for Housing, Moruf Akinderu-Fatai, said the completion of 270 units of two-bedroom apartments is simply a captious measurement towards alleviating the lodging shortage successful Lagos, hence bringing succour to the beloved radical of Igando-Ikotun LCDA successful Alimosho Local council.

He, however, called for much backstage information successful strengthening the resoluteness to trim the lodging shortage successful the state. He urged the beneficiaries of the property and each different authorities government-owned estates to instrumentality ownership of the full projects, peculiarly successful the facet of attraction of the facilities and basal infrastructure enactment successful spot to marque it livable and habitable for all, irrespective of ethnicity, governmental affiliations oregon spiritual differences.

MEANWHILE, Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, announced a currency grant of N10 cardinal to the wide champion graduating pupil of Lagos State University (LASU), Olaniyi Mubaraq Olawale of Accounting Education, who graduated with a CGPA of 4.98. The politician announced successful his remarks astatine the expansive finale of the 27th convocation ceremonial of the instauration held astatine the Buba Maruwa Auditorium.

Sanwo-Olu, who stressed the value of rewarding hard work, said it is simply a information that brings retired quality, which yet benefits the country. He said: “As a society, we person a work to nonstop a beardown connection retired that world excellence indispensable ne'er beryllium underestimated oregon taken for granted successful our society. Our young radical indispensable spot a crushed to hunger for it with the aforesaid vigor and enthusiasm reserved these days for creator and sporting success.”

In her remarks, the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, noted that since her emergence arsenic LASU’s VC, the instauration had made important advancement successful the country of learning, probe and innovation.