Browsing: Babatunde Fashola

In the interview, described by the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview, Azu Ishiekwene, as “the political equivalent of the ogbunigwe (Biafran improvised explosives)”, Kalu illustrated his point with a conversation he claimed to have had with President Muhammadu Buhari, who wondered aloud why previous high profile Igbo appointees had done nothing for the region

The Minister, who described the inputs of the building partners as inspiring, pointed out that it was not as if Nigeria lacked the capacity to build houses, adding that what was lacking at the moment was sustainability of the programme in a way that the country could determine how many houses it could build year-on-year on a sustainable basis

Speaking specifically on the sectors under his Ministry, Fashola, who reiterated that most of the problems, especially in the power sector, were not technical but man-made, added that his Ministry had evolved clear roadmaps that were already being implemented to achieve sustainable solutions to the problems in the three critical sectors