The controversial Badia in Lagos State tops the list.
Other states that will benefit are Kogi, Abia, Kano and Rivers.
The Minister of Land, Housing and Urban Development, Ms Ama Pepple, who disclosed this on Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting, said report on the affected areas is ready.
Pepple also said that the N1 billion is already provided in the 2013 budget.
Speaking through the Permanent Secretary in her ministry, Ibrahim Mahe, at post-FEC briefing, the minister, who presented the ministry’s performance report for 2012 to Council, announced that 8,069 houses were delivered in the year under review while 1,700 are ongoing at different locations across the country.
She said that about 720,000 jobs have been created in the housing sector.
Speaking on the performance report presented by Pepple, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, said: “We are pleased with the report.”
Maku added that Council members particularly hailed the minister’s effort in attracting private partnership in the delivery of mass housing through mortgage system.
The Minister of Information also presented his performance report for 2012 to the Council.
He recalled the four major challenges that confronted his ministry.
According to him, it was difficult selling deregulation of the downstream sector to Nigerians.
He, however, took solace in the fact that it was half won, adding: “Most Nigerians agreed that it was good for the country but ill-timed.”
Maku was also confronted with embarking on security campaign, which aimed at reassuring Nigerians that the dreaded Islamist sect, Boko Haram, neither speaks for Islam nor fights for the welfare of the Northern people.
The minister lamented the persisting problem of regulating the media industry, particularly the print media, saying: “We must have a media that is professional and you can’t have it unless you have some measure of regulation.”
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