As rent skyrockets across Nigeria: Houses everywhere, no occupants
Written by Abdullahi Yahaya Bello & Musa Umar Bologi
Ordinarily, Odamu Gbulafor, a final-year student of FCT College of Education, Zuba is supposed to be attending lectures and putting final touches to his project. Instead, Weekly Trust met him on the roof of an uncompleted building frantically struggling to fix its zinc so that he and some of his schoolmates could convert it to a temporary accommodation pending the completion of the renovation on their hostel. Gbulafor like most of his mates caught in the accommodation crisis cannot afford the exorbitant cost of renting a house in Zuba, a satellite town in Abuja, nor the services of artisans like carpenters hence they resort to self-help. Welcome to the world of the latest victims of ever-rising cost of rent in Abuja.
Many students of the college have chosen the option of completing abandoned houses or shops to ease their accommodation problem in the school. “We are really facing very difficult situation in terms of accommodation. The school has asked us to resume, but we don’t have a place to stay,” said Gbulafor.
The students have devised a kind of symbiotic relationship with the owners of abandoned properties in Zuba to allow them to stay in the houses while they (students) complete them. “We don’t have any option than to go into this kind of arrangement, because we can’t afford the high rent,” Aminu Ibrahim, an NCE II student, said. “And as you can see the project that is going on there,” pointing to the direction of Gbulafor, “anybody that cannot afford the cost of hiring a carpenter has to do the job himself,” he said.....
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Written by Abdullahi Yahaya Bello & Musa Umar Bologi
Ordinarily, Odamu Gbulafor, a final-year student of FCT College of Education, Zuba is supposed to be attending lectures and putting final touches to his project. Instead, Weekly Trust met him on the roof of an uncompleted building frantically struggling to fix its zinc so that he and some of his schoolmates could convert it to a temporary accommodation pending the completion of the renovation on their hostel. Gbulafor like most of his mates caught in the accommodation crisis cannot afford the exorbitant cost of renting a house in Zuba, a satellite town in Abuja, nor the services of artisans like carpenters hence they resort to self-help. Welcome to the world of the latest victims of ever-rising cost of rent in Abuja.
Many students of the college have chosen the option of completing abandoned houses or shops to ease their accommodation problem in the school. “We are really facing very difficult situation in terms of accommodation. The school has asked us to resume, but we don’t have a place to stay,” said Gbulafor.
The students have devised a kind of symbiotic relationship with the owners of abandoned properties in Zuba to allow them to stay in the houses while they (students) complete them. “We don’t have any option than to go into this kind of arrangement, because we can’t afford the high rent,” Aminu Ibrahim, an NCE II student, said. “And as you can see the project that is going on there,” pointing to the direction of Gbulafor, “anybody that cannot afford the cost of hiring a carpenter has to do the job himself,” he said.....
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