RismadarVoice Reporters
January 6, 2026
The Ogun State Government has announced plans to deliver not fewer than 3,000 housing units in 2026, supported by a budgetary allocation of over N100 billion for the housing sector.
The Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Jamiu Omoniyi, disclosed this on Monday during a media briefing held at the Conference Room of the Ministry of Housing, Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
Omoniyi said the planned housing delivery aligns with the 2026 budget projections and the administration’s broader commitment to providing affordable, quality housing for residents of the state.
“In line with the 2026 budget projection of over N100 billion, the sector is poised to deliver an additional 3,000 units of affordable housing across the state, including infrastructure-supported site-and-services schemes,” he said.
The Commissioner revealed that within the second quarter of the year, the government would deliver 579 low-income housing units out of the 2,500 units planned for workers in the state around Siun, Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area.
According to him, the low-income housing project would be jointly executed by the Ministry of Housing, the Ogun State Housing Corporation and the Ogun State Property and Investment Corporation.
“We are planning to replicate the success recorded at Kobape around Siun in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area. We are projecting 2,500 affordable low-income housing units comprising two-bedroom and three-bedroom apartments.
“For the first phase, which will commence in the first quarter of the year, we are delivering 579 housing units. We have secured the land, engaged all stakeholders, and land clearing will commence before the end of the month. Construction will then proceed in earnest,” Omoniyi explained.
He added that the first phase of the project is expected to be delivered by May or June, after which subsequent phases would commence.
Speaking on the broader housing vision of the administration, the Commissioner said Governor Dapo Abiodun’s government had set a target of delivering 10,000 housing units for residents of the state and had, in the last six and a half years, delivered over 5,000 units.
He said the administration remains committed to bridging the housing deficit before the end of its tenure in May 2027.
Omoniyi listed key legacy projects slated for execution to include the construction of an International Conference Centre at the Gateway International Airport, Iperu, featuring a 2,500-seat banquet hall; the Appeal Court headquarters and residential quarters; Ibara GRA Phase II comprising 50 duplexes; as well as commissioners’, political appointees’ and House of Assembly quarters.
He added that the government would also advance flagship housing developments across strategic locations such as Prince Courts Estate, Siun along the Abeokuta–Sagamu Expressway; ISEYA Court, Oke-Mosan; Havila Court, Ibara; and Havens Court, Igbeba, Ijebu-Ode, alongside the continuation of the Ibara GRA Urban Regeneration Scheme, Phase II.
According to the Commissioner, the initiatives are aligned with the 2026 “Budget of Sustainable Legacy” as outlined by Governor Abiodun during the budget presentation.
Omoniyi noted that the state concluded 2025 strongly with the delivery of 30 additional duplexes at the Ibara GRA Cluster 1 Extension and another 100 duplexes at the President Muhammadu Buhari Estate.
He also disclosed that work was ongoing at the Ibara GRA Urban Regeneration Project, where over 150 modern housing units had been delivered out of more than 200 planned.
Reaffirming the administration’s commitment, Omoniyi said Ogun State’s housing investments continue to meet rising demand for affordable and quality homes while driving slum regeneration and sustainable urban development.
Despite criticisms and misinformation surrounding the housing programme in 2025, he said the government remained focused, undeterred.
“Having delivered more housing units than all previous administrations combined, our state remains firmly on track to complete over 10,000 affordable homes by the end of this administration,” he said.
On the national housing deficit, estimated at about 28 million units, the Commissioner referenced recent remarks by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Dangiwa, who said the deficit could be addressed if about 550,000 housing units were constructed annually over the next 10 years.
Dangiwa had attributed Nigeria’s housing challenge to rapid population growth, inadequate housing supply and the prevalence of substandard structures that fall short of basic habitability and safety standards.
