MORE Academy to Hold First Excellence Award for Mortgage,Real Estate Professionals

Mortgage and Real Estate Academy (MORE) Academy), a Public Private Partnership between Centre for Management Development, a Parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning and Western Atlantic Corporation Limited, will host her “First Award of Excellence” for practitioners and professionals in Nigerian mortgage and real estate industry.

The event, which will hold annually, is scheduled to take place on October 19, 2018. It was conceived to encourage healthy competition and drive for quality housing delivery to meet the huge shortfall in housing supply in Nigeria.

The Chairman, MORE Academy, Dr. Adejuwon Akinfolurin stated this during a Press Conference held in Lagos recently, adding that the country had been facing serious residential housing deficit which is affecting the quality of life and living standard in Nigeria.

“The Buhari administration has been doing a lot to encourage stakeholders in the industry to enhance their capacity to produce more affordable housing for the populace in order to cut the shortfall,” he said.

He stated that there has also been a lot of improvement in the recent years in the types, quality, as well as innovative standards occasioned by technology to deliver better quality housing for Nigerians.

Akinfolurin stated that as a support service institution which has a major responsibility to provide the needed capacity building for the industry, MORE Academy has come up with the 2018 First Award of Excellence to encourage and promote healthy competition among stakeholders and provide a platform that will motivate people to do more for the industry.