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There appears to be a constantly incontrovertible, yet delicately inseparable cord, between land resource as an all-time invaluable asset, and meaningful socio-economic growth and development. Much as this assertion holds, what enigmatically remains almost unsolvable is the seeming unending mystery that surrounds ‘wilful’ prevention of access to this very non-substitutable resource, in spite of its tangentiality to virtually all endeavours, around which the survival of all human beings revolves. Thence, it is compellingly tempting to reason that, some ‘unseen’ factors are decidedly making the delivery and accessibility of land, especially within urban milieu, extremely difficult, so much that, enviable growth and development might be so perennially elusive, particularly to the poor segment of the populace, which unfortunately forms the largest proportion of any country’s citizenry, Nigeria inclusive. Although, the trend facades itself to be solely caused by economic and other attendant pecuniary factors, but as all the economically-defined strategies seem not too effective over the years, to finally nail several challenges associated with formal land delivery and accessibility; it behoves upon researchers and policy-makers alike, to look beyond the ordinary. Hence, the demystification exercise such as this, which is geared towards unravelling this mystery, reveals more factors that are indeed non-pecuniary, this is the crux of this study. Therefore, this study, which is part of a doctoral research, pre-empirically via literature reviews and two pilot surveys, generated those not-so-suspected non-pecuniary factors that are considered as retardants to the formal delivery and accessibility of urban lands in Nigeria. These retardants are then catalogued and coined into one major determinant variable, which is called policy development and compliance engineering (PDCE) for ease of empirical exercise that was to follow later, as well as for the understanding by all would-be stakeholders. This major determinant variable is then being measured by other three latent constructs, which are calibrated to encompass some integral items of questions as their evaluative components; these constructs are named policy relevance and appropriateness (PRA), contents and context of policies (CCP) and role mediation regime (RMR). Hence, out of the total of 2408 respondents as total sample space, 850 respondents were qualified as the sample frame, from where a total of 450 respondents were considered for the sample size, upon which well structure questionnaires of 5point Likert scale type were administered among career land officers and tenured land regulators in the MDAs, independent land consultants and NGOs with shelter mandate, as well as various categories of land users and developers. After through normality and reliability tests on the 427 retrieved questionnaires, only 11 were considered invalid and thus rejected. Therefore, the remaining 416 questionnaires that were valid went through AMOS’ version 18 software for Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analyses. The results showed amongst other things that among the three major constituting retardants of formal land delivery and accessibility, contents and context of policies has the highest regression via its estimate of 0.26 with critical ratio of 4.86, which thus makes it to be the greatest among the policy development and compliance engineering constructs, as contributor of retardation upon the propensity of formal lands’ regulo-administrative machineries to efficiently deliver lands for optimum accessibility by the land users and developers. Among other recommendations to address this pathetic scenario, are that the government should strive and ‘nigerianise’ all or very many important provisions of all the relevant land policy instruments, etc.
Path of Science
Assessing the Effects of ‘Stand-alone’ Structuration of Land Administration System on Urban Land Delivery and Accessibility in Nigeria2016 •
Social Science Research Network
The Correlates of Organisational and Idiosyncratic Nuances of Land Administration System and Formal Delivery of Residential Lands in Nigeria2017 •
Melanesian Journal of Geomatics and Property Studies, ISSN: 2414-2557, Volume 4, 2018
Inquiry into the Stamina of Nigeria's Land Administration System towards Sustainable Delivery of Urban Lands2018 •
It must be recognised that productive use of resources as cherished as land cannot be seen to be optimal, until it is keyed into sustainability indicators for proper calibration and assessment. The ease with which land as a resource, especially within the urban milieu, is delivered by various land agencies, in addition to its accessibility to several categories of potential users for varying developmental purposes, are arguably the most paramount of such indicators. Land delivery and accessibility issues predicate on several factors, chief of which is the techno-operational sophistication of the land administration system in the country under focus, especially those found within the stratification of underdeveloped and developing belts of the world. It is against this background that this study was conducted, so as to measure the stamina and level of sophistication of the arsenal of Nigeria's land administration system. This is to ensure prompt and efficient delivery and accessibility of urban lands through formal land market mechanism, by different categories of developers, by benchmarking the assessment of the LAS stamina via the following scorecards , namely: promptness, capacity, reliability, foresight, quality, coverage, discretion, penetration, capability, drive, judgment, flexibility, output, precision and responsibility. Out of the total 189 individuals considered as the sampling frame for the study, 115 individuals qualified for inclusion in the sample that was subjected to a structured questionnaire survey involving career land officers, tenured land advisers, practising land consultants and land developers in the six states of southwestern Nigeria. This was done so as to ensure a spread in the results that have greater breadth and are unbiased on the issues involved in this study. 101 questionnaires were retrieved, out of which 92 questionnaires were valid following data screening, and were used as basis upon which analyses were done. Emphasis was placed on the use of a 5-point Likert scale measurement, combined with both inferential and descriptive statistical tools for further explanations of the results. Findings indicate that the much desired level of sophistication in LAS for proper assessment of both past and present practices and to discern emerging challenges and frontally tackling them is inexplicably low. Hence, the study concludes that this not-so-impressive trend has rendered Nigeria's land administration system (LAS) ineffective, inefficient and less globally competitive. Among the policy implications is that there is a strong need for a virile mechanism through which public systems, including the land administration systems (LASs), will be frequently monitored for continual updating and overhauling of their platforms for buoyed stamina and improved performance. Keywords: inquiry, stamina, Land Administration System, urban lands delivery, Nigeria
This paper examines Land administration and access to development land in Nigeria. The focus of the paper is on the frustrations and challenges ordinary Nigerians encounter in the course of having access to land. The 1978 Land Use Decree was promulgated to ensure easy access to land in Nigeria but it has left the people worst off. It is the contention of this paper that majority of Nigerians do not have easy access to land allocation from the government and the only option available to them is to resort to acquiring land from the informal land market. Similarly, the general consensus of the Nigerians is that they have not been treated fairly by the government as far as access to land is concerned. The paper concludes by recommending ways to enhance easy access to land to ordinary Nigerians in order to ensure equity and fairness in allocation of such a vital societal resource.
Abstract: Developing countries like Nigeria faces the problem of its lands from surveying its amount; recognition and registration of rights to land, making it up to date and proposed future use and so on. To deal with these problems-defining them, assessing their state and need for improvement are necessary in any case. This is because Land has cultural as well as economic importance and its proper management is crucial to the present and future of every society. Land is something that often transcends economic sense as is evidenced by the way that nations and individuals both fight and sometimes die for what they regard as their land. Land is a basic resource for wealth creation, and on it activities of man take place. Efficient information on land is a good foundation for wealth generation and national development Land reform ought to be on the front burner of the Federal Government agenda. Hence, Government must as a matter of fact, place emphasis on improving the technical and institutional infrastructure to ensure that robust land registration and cadastral systems are put in place. Significant and special budget must be made to take care of hardware and software without neglecting ‘people ware’. When the reform shall finally sail through, the long term sustainability of any reform process will depend on the quality of the management team left behind after technical assistance is provided. This paper looks at some of the human issues that are involved in operating an effective land administration. Failure to address capacity building will almost certainly result in the failure of the system. It is the institutional and human issues that will be crucial to the success of any land reform process.
Faculty of Law, university of Lagos
Housing Needs and Land Administration in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects2008 •
Melanesian Journal of Geomatics and Property Studies, PNG University of Technology
Non-Inclusive Regulo-Administrative Ergonomics of Land Management System and Its Impacts on Sustainability of Nigeria's Land Markets2021 •
Undebatably, smoothness and mutuality of approach ultimately buoy every system, land management system inclusive. They also help LMS to enduringly deliver and sometimes surpass the statutory mandates, with which it is saddled, as it resultantly soars the delivery and accessibility of urban lands in Nigeria, nay globally. Sadly, complementarity and symbiotism that are hallmarks of a smoothly and mutually operated system are either nonexistent or at an appallingly poor state among land management systems in Nigeria with consequences in terms of retardation in the speed and volume of land delivery and accessibility. Hence, assessing the immediate and remote impacts on stakeholders of the parlous state of inclusive regulo-administrative ergonomics of land management system, in terms of supply and demand of land in Nigeria, is the purpose of this paper. Being quantitative research, the plethora of factors that are innate to the issues involved are scripted into 12 impact-measuring constructs: responsiveness+responsibility, bureaucracy, effectiveness+efficiency, people-centredness, elegance, institutionalism, trustworthiness, speed, pedigree-posterity, fairness, citizenship, and multi-dimensionality. These constructs are then used to prepare 69 copies of 5-Likert scaled questionnaire, which were distributed through purposive and simple random sampling techniques among land regulators, land administrators, independent land consultants, NGOs with land mandates, and registered land developers within southwest Nigeria. Out of this number, 56 completed questionnaires were retrieved, translating to a distribution-retrieval rate of 81.16%, while 48 copies were valid and used for data analysis. Percentile, multiple regression, exploratory factor analysis and mean item score were adopted to measure the degree by which inclusiveness of land's reguloadministrative ergonomics impacts the land management system, and the delivery and accessibility of land in Nigeria. Based on an excellent output of 0.835 for Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin, together with good Bartlett's Test of Sphericity value at p < 0.05 and 0.863 for average Cronbach alpha values for the totality of the 24 description measurement factor statements, the results show that the non-people centredness of government's land MDAs, is the worst hit aspect of land management system, closely followed by bureaucratisation aspects occasioned by the non-inclusiveness question surrounding regulo-administrative ergonomics, which by extension has great adversity on the dynamics of land delivery and accessibility in Nigeria. Consequently, the land management system and the supply and demand aspects of land spectrum in Nigeria continually experience the ugliness that is heralded by the regulo-administrative ergonomics inclusiveness issues. The paper recommends, among other things, that drastic, decisive, and concerted measures allowing for increased mutuality among all hierarchical units and divisions of land management system be adopted to promote sustainability of land markets in Nigeria.
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Despite the provisions of the Land Use Act (LUA), cap L5 of 2004, to make land available for all stake holders, Federal Government has continuously found it difficult to access land in the states for her developmental projects. Does this influence successful implementation of her building construction projects in south-south Nigeria significantly? To what extent does the State where the project is domiciled influence successful project implementation? In order to provide answers to these questions a survey approach was used in three States (Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Cross River), randomly selected with two projects in each State. Structured questionnaire was used to elicit data from screened 179 respondents for the study. Two hypotheses were formulated to guide the research work. The dependent variables studied were land accessibility and successful project implementation while the State where the projects were domiciled was the independent variable. The analytical tools used included ...
SUMMARY The rising profile of informal settlement and slum in Minna and environs in the last three decades is alarming. This trend has serious aesthetic and functional effects on the landscape and sustainable development of the city. It is believed that, the non-availability of relevant geospatial planning tools and infrastructure, and the perceived difficulty by the land owners in meeting the statutory conditions in the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) as stipulated by the Land Use Act No. 6 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1978, provided the platforms for this phenomenon. This paper therefore attempts an evaluation of the efficiency of the Land Use Act 1978 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its implications in Minna and Environs, in order to identify the challenges and the way forward in the strategic and speedy land use planning and development in the area. Data collection methods adopted include personal interviews, examination of the existing maps and the Land Use Act 1978, No.6 provision in offer of C of O, and questionnaire administration. The questionnaires were based on four (4) key elements consisting; survey and cadastral information system, adherence to statutory conditions in the C of O, land use/development control, and government housing policy implementation in fifteen (15) selected ward areas. A part of the questionnaires was administered to staff of relevant ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) related to lands, survey, planning and housing, while the second part was administered to sampled land lords in fifteen (15) selected ward Areas. The results of the survey show that, the poor physical development and informal settlement trend in Minna and environs is a combined effect of slow procedures and bureaucracy in obtaining C of O, inconsistency and inefficiency of relevant authorities responsible for land administration, rapid population growth and rural-urban migration, lack of political will and poor implementation of government housing programmes since 1978. The study also revealed that, the fear of being harmed or attacked by property owners and the patriotic will to refuse bribes when offered were parts of the major problems faced by land use inspectors. Also, the government officers' right to enter various premises during inspection is limited by the 'ba-shiga' ('no entry') system; which is a strong socio-cultural barrier to effective development control in some parts of the study area. It is recommended that, the current inefficiency in land administration system be addressed, and where government housing programmes are not realistic, robust cadastre, urban facilities and infrastructure should be provided for all development layouts in order to automatically check informal settlements.
Christian Higher Education
Purposeful Exclusion of Sexual Minority Youth in Christian Higher Education: The Implications of Discrimination2010 •
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1999 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (Cat. No.99CH36282)
Efficient computer design of compact planar band-pass filters using electrically short multiple coupled linesCogent Food & Agriculture
The Effects of Water Hyacinth Invasion on Smallholder Farming along River Tano and Tano Lagoon, Ghana2019 •
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Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Evaluation of Methodology for Serotyping Invasive and Nasopharyngeal Isolates of Haemophilus influenzae in the Ongoing Surveillance in Brazil2003 •
Journal of Occupational Therapy Education
The Editors’ Perspective: A Successful First Year of the Journal of Occupational Therapy Education2018 •
Archives de Pédiatrie
Mise à jour des vaccinations de l’enfant arrivant de l’étranger (adopté, réfugié ou migrant) en France2014 •
Applied sciences
Federating Medical Deep Learning Models from Private Jupyter Notebooks to Distributed Institutions2023 •
Scientific Journal of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Rare Actinobacteria and Their Potential Biotechnological Applications2023 •
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Multicultural Identity Integration versus Compartmentalization as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being for Third Culture Kids: The Mediational Role of Self-Concept Consistency and Self-Efficacy2020 •
50th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference
Fatigue Crack Propagation Property of Friction Stir Welded 2024-T3 Aluminum Alloy2009 •
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