Vice President Kashim Shettima estimates that Nigeria needs N21 trillion to address the housing need.
He was speaking during the groundbreaking for a housing development with 500 units that the government of Sokoto State planned to build.
In a statement by Olusola Abiola, the Director in the Office of the Vice President, Senator Shettima notes that Nigeria has a housing deficit of twenty-eight million houses.
However, he praised Sokoto State Governor Ahmed Aliyu for his efforts to address the housing needs of his people.
The state government would spend N7.3 billion on the project in the Wamakko Local Government Area of the state.
Governor Aliyu says the housing estate will be for civil servants and will be sold to them when completed on an owner-occupier basis.
