Challenges to Land Registration in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Nwuba, Chukwuma C.; Polytechnic, Kaduna; Nuhu, Siddique R.

doi:10.15641/jarer.v1i1.566

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“…This study also showed that, title applicants lacked awareness on the value attachment to the documentation of land transaction. Furthermore, this study revealed that there was a wrong perception regarding land title registration, as some respondents believed that land title registration was needed only when they wanted to sell or take a loan from the bank [21].…”

Section: Social Factor Hindering Land Title Registration Processmentioning

confidence: 92%

Social Factors Encumbering Land Title Registration in Tanzania: The Case of Mtwivila and Mkimbizi Wards, Iringa Municipality

Kamomonga

2021

JSRR

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The aim of this study was to explore social factors impeding land title registration (LTR) in Mtwivila and Mkimbizi Wards, Iringa Municipality. Using the mixed research design, this study employed cross-sectional research to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Questionnaire and interview methods were used to collect primary data. Qualitative data were presented in selected themes and verbatim by interview respondents. Quantitative data were presented in tables, frequencies, percentages and figures then analysed descriptively. The study findings indicated limited awareness among Plot Owners Without Title Deed (POWTD) regarding: the inherent benefits of title deeds, probate and administration, plot allocation procedures, land title registration procedures and the perils of not executing property transfer. This study recommends that allied land professionals in Iringa Municipal council (IMC), Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development (MLHHSD) and other stakeholders should create public awareness, as an immediate intervention measure regarding land title registration.

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Section: Social Factor Hindering Land Title Registration Processmentioning

confidence: 92%

Social Factors Encumbering Land Title Registration in Tanzania: The Case of Mtwivila and Mkimbizi Wards, Iringa Municipality

Kamomonga

2021

JSRR

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“…Nigeria's transfer fees are among the most expensive in the world, yet land is still seen as a reliable store of value and best hedge against inflation. The 1978 Act has not been reformed, and is much criticised: 'politically undemocratic, economically unproductive, but also socially segregative, particularly in its urban and non-urban dichotomy' [103][104][105][106][107].…”

Section: National Land Laws and Institutions: Colonial Legacies And New Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

History and Prospects for African Land Governance: Institutions, Technology and ‘Land Rights for All’

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2021

Land

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Issues relating to land are specifically referred to in five of the United Nations’ (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and UN-Habitat’s Global Land Tools Network views access to land and tenure security as key to achieving sustainable, inclusive and efficient cities. The African continent is growing in importance, with climate change and population pressure on land. This review explores an interdisciplinary approach, and identifies recent advances in geo-spatial technology relevant to land governance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It discusses historical legacies of colonialism that affect the culture of its land administration institutions, through three levels of governance: international/regional, national and sub-national. Short narratives on land law are discussed for four Anglophone former British colonies of SSA. A wide range of sources are drawn upon: academic research across disciplines, and official publications of various actors, including land professions (particularly surveyors, lawyers and planners), government and wider society. The findings are that African countries have carried forward colonial land governance structures into the post-independence political settlement, and that a gulf exists between the institutions, language and cultures of land governance, and the mass of its peoples struggling with basic issues of survival. This gulf may be addressed by recent approaches to land administration and technological advances in geo-spatial technology, and by new knowledge networks and interactions.

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“…Land registration systems are introduced to facilitate the formalisation of land rights and transactions in land. A wellfunctioning and accessible land registration system provides opportunity for the protection of land rights as well as being a source of information that contributes to the reduction of transaction costs in the land market (Deininger and Feder, 2009;Nwuba and Nuhu, 2018). A formal land registration system provides information about the property rights and basic characteristics of real estate, which contributes to lowering the transaction costs associated with searches required to ascertain facts about the particulars of properties and parties to a transaction.…”

Section: Principles Of Land Registrationmentioning

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Factors impacting on effective implementation of land title registration – a perspective from Ghana

Quaye¹

2020

JPLM

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Many governments across Sub Saharan Africa are in the process of introducing or improving land registration and formal titling systems. One of the stated aims is to achieve modern land information management in order to facilitate the development of the land market. It is often assumed that, because formal systems and institutions have enjoyed some positive outcomes in terms of realising wealth in developed countries, they will succeed equally well in developing economies. However, findings from empirical studies across several developing countries show that the performance of formal land registration systems has been mixed. Relying on empirical data from two major cities in Ghana, this paper examines the operations of land registration system with particular reference to its land information management aspects. The analysis shows that a divergence in the implementation of principles of the legal framework and organisational challenges are major contributory factors to deficiencies in the land information regime of the land registration system. Hence, there is a need for effective implementation of well-crafted and functional legal frameworks for land registration, to ensure that the principles and operations of land registration are locally relevant and sensitive. To address the inadequate organisational capacity there is a need to improve the capacity of the human resource base of the officials of the formal land administration sector. The procedure for land registration must also be streamlined in order to eliminate unnecessary requirements and thereby reduce the transaction time, costs of registration and frustration of clients.

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Challenges to Land Registration in Kaduna State, Nigeria

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Social Factors Encumbering Land Title Registration in Tanzania: The Case of Mtwivila and Mkimbizi Wards, Iringa Municipality

Social Factors Encumbering Land Title Registration in Tanzania: The Case of Mtwivila and Mkimbizi Wards, Iringa Municipality

History and Prospects for African Land Governance: Institutions, Technology and ‘Land Rights for All’

Factors impacting on effective implementation of land title registration – a perspective from Ghana

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