Ahmed Dangiwa, the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, has urged stakeholders in the built environment, including state governments, housing institutions, development finance institutions (DFIs), to support the National Homeownership and Housing Development Campaign.
The Minister made this call while delivering the thematic address on Day Four of the 14th National Council on Lands, Housing and Urban Development, currently holding in Ilorin, Kwara State.
He urged stakeholders to see the initiative as a collective effort to drive sustainable homeownership across the states of the federation.
The campaign, which is scheduled to commence on March 4-5, 2026, in Katsina State, is aimed to strengthen grassroots housing delivery and support the ministry’s reform agenda.
According to Dangiwa, the campaign represents the ministry’s determination to lead “a unified and coordinated approach to subnational housing development, working closely with state governments to ensure that federal programmes, reforms, finance opportunities and private capital are translated into real, visible and deliverable projects at the state level.”
“I want to use this platform to call on all stakeholders — governors, commissioners, permanent secretaries, housing institutions, developers, financiers and professionals — to actively support and participate in this campaign, which will be flagged off in Katsina State from March 4-5, 2026,” the minister added.
The campaign, being organised by Know This Nigeria Network (KTNN) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, is designed to connect federal housing reforms, policies and interventions with state-level implementation.
It features two major components — Regional Executive Sessions and Public Homeownership Seminars — aimed at strengthening linkages between Federal Housing Institutions, DFIs and state governments.
Dangiwa noted that the campaign aligns with the ministry’s newly introduced Unified Housing Delivery Framework, which seeks to deepen collaboration between the federal and state governments to deliver housing at scale and build sustainable cities nationwide.
“Our new direction is to ensure that the ministry and all federal housing institutions function as one government, delivering results that directly support state and local implementation efforts. This is to ensure that we operate not in silos, but as one coherent national housing delivery system working in direct support of state-level delivery,” he stated.
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In his presentation at the council meeting, the National Coordinator of the Campaign, Muhammed Adamu, disclosed that Katsina State will host the North-West edition, which will serve as the inaugural outing of the nationwide programme.
He explained that a coordinated National Homeownership and Urban Development Campaign provides a practical framework for creating structured synergy between the ministry, federal housing institutions, DFIs, and state governments.
“It provides clear and consistent platforms for awareness and engagement, and enables sustained interaction beyond one-off meetings or political cycles,” he said.
Adamu added that the campaign will also strengthen the capacity of states to attract, absorb and deploy housing capital more effectively. “A central innovation of the campaign is the encouragement of states to establish State Housing Reform Offices (SHROs).
These offices will provide expert-level advisory and technical capacity within state governments, enabling them to convert opportunities into bankable and deliverable projects,” he noted.
The 14th National Council on Lands, Housing and Urban Development is the sector’s highest policy and decision-making forum, bringing together key actors across the housing and urban development ecosystem.
This year’s edition, themed ‘Achieving Housing Delivery and Sustainable Cities through Effective Land Management, Urban Renewal, Promotion of Local Building Materials, and Public-Private Partnerships in Nigeria’, was held recently.
It was attended by the host Governor, the minister and minister of state for housing and urban development, lawmakers, commissioners, and permanent secretaries from the 36 states and the FCT, as well as housing institutions, agencies, developers, and other stakeholders.
