Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will on July 25, 2022, declare open the 16th edition of the Africa International Housing Conference and Exhibition in Abuja.
Coordinator of the conference, Festus Adebayo, in a press statement in Abuja, described the event as a platform to sustain the advocacy for decent and affordable housing for all Nigerians.
Adebayo said this year’s conference will further promote the need to strongly entrenched social housing policies and programmes for the benefit of low income earners,
“The show goes beyond state of the art exhibition to bringing together top government functionaries, housing policy makers and implementers, building and standard regulatory agencies as well as captains in the building and construction sector.
“The platform therefore accords them the opportunity to exchange views, get first hand information on the progress made by government institutional framework, the challenges and the way forward to achieving decent and affordable housing for all,” he said.
Adebayo stated further that conference would also focus on the role of the capital market in solving Nigeria’s housing problem with the Managing Director of the Nigerian Exchange Group, Oscar Onyema, leading other top executives on discussions in this direction.
He revealed further that the issue of climate change as it affects housing and the concept of green housing which increasingly gaining relevance will also take the centre stage at the conference.
The coordinator noted that the event serves as a one stop shop for all housing needs as it brings together under one roof specialised indigenous and foreign manufacturers of building materials and equipments, world class interior decorators, genuine state-of-the art estate developers, architectural and construction giants, dealers in building and housing products, mortgage finance and refinancing institutions, federal agencies saddled with the responsibility of ensuring decent and affordable housing for citizens, specialised institutions in construction and environmental safety among others.
“The event with the theme, housing for all: The role of government in creating an effective enabling environment will be graced by thirty four international speakers, over fifteen thousand participants and over four hundred exhibitors from across the globe,” the coordinator added.
