Geospatial information, land administration reform and sustainability in developing economies : the Nigerian experience
Njar, Gertrude Nnanjar & Olusola Atiloia
The evolution of land tenure system in Nigeria is reviewed and the various constraints on development are presented and discussed. The Land Use Act of 1978 is reviewed and various drawbacks and constraints on access to and transactions in land are discussed. The implementation of the Act is concentrated on titling of the urban land which constitutes about 3% of the countryys national space. Thus, about 900,000.00 square kilometres of Nigerian land is effectively locked up as dead capitall. It is in attempt to unlock this dead capitall as asset in land market economy that President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alhaji Umaru Shehu YarrAdua made the National Land Reform as part of the Seven Point Agenda (SPA) for national development. On the 2nd of April this year the President inaugurated the Presidential Technical Committee on Land. The Committee was charged with, through a well articulated Terms of Referencee the responsibility of drafting a road map for improving the institutional, legal and technical framework to transform the land tenure system to a dynamic land market economy. Various aspects of the Land Reform Agenda are presented and discussed.
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