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Housing & Urban Development (FMHUD)
Federal Republic of Nigeria

URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

Jan
08
2025
MR. OLALEKAN A, LANA, (DIRECTOR URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT)

MR. OLALEKAN A, LANA, (DIRECTOR URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT)

 

Mr. Olalekan A, LANA, is a registered Town Planner, who joined the Federal Civil Service as Town Planning Officer Grade 1 in April, 1991 under the defunct Federal Ministry of Works and Housing. He rose through the ranks to attain the post of substantive Director (Town Planning) on 1st January, 2020 and assumed the Office of Head of Department, Urban & Regional Development (URD) Department, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development in December, 2024. As Head of URD Department, he coordinates the activities of more than 260 staff, including URD Zonal Offices in more than 40 locations spread across the thirty-six (36) States of Nigeria and the FCT. In late 2024 and throughout the first quarter of 2025, he held the responsibility of chief coordinator of the implementation of a combined departmental budgetary appropriation in excess of N20 billion.  

 

His tertiary education was attained from three prestigious institutions namely University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), University of Ibadan and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where he obtained a Bachelors degree in Geography, Masters degree in Urban & Regional Planning and professional Certificate respectfully.

 

He is a corporate member of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners (NITP) and is fully the course of his career which had spanned 34 years to date, he served meritoriously in many Inter-ministerial and Presidential Committees. Especially, he was a member of the Secretariat of the Presidential Committee on Urban Development & Housing, a Committee jointly led by former Governor of Rivers State, Chief Peter Odili and late Professor Emeritus, Akin Mabogunje. The work of this distinguished Committee led to the dramatic repositioning of urban and regional planning practice in Nigeria and the establishment of the very first Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development in 2005.  

 

Also in the course of his service, he has attended several local and international training courses and conferences. He was at different times at the University of Zimbabwe, Republic of Taiwan (ROA China) and at ESI, Singapore. He has attended several sessions of the biennial World Urban Forum (WUF) as well as High Level Forums of United Nation’s General Assembly in New York.

 

He is happily married with a daughter and a stepdaughter. He is a committed Christian who loves church work, poetry, watching nature and listening to quiet music.

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Mar
18
2025

PHOTO SPEAK: PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP RENEWED HOPE HOUSING SUMMIT IN ABUJA ON MONDAY 17/3/25

From left: Convener, Renewed Hope Housing Summit, Dr Olayemi Rotimi-Shodimu; Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Musa Dangiwa; Chairman, Senate Committee on Land, Housing and Urban Development, Sen. Aminu Tambuwal; Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Dr Shaibu Belgore; and the Founder/Chief Executive Officer, NISH Affordable Housing Limited, Dr Yemi Adelakun, during the Public Private Partnership Renewed Hope Housing Summit in Abuja on Monday (17/3/25)

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Mar
14
2025

THE OCCASSION OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 2025 PROCUREMENT PLANNING COMMITTEE (PPP), BY THE PERMANENT SECRETARY, DR SHUAIB BELGORE

The occassion of the inauguration of the Federal Ministry of Housing and Urban Development 2025 Procurement Planning Committee (PPP), by the Permanent Secretary, Dr Shuaib Belgore

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