What is it about?
The article is about land registration in Nigeria, a developing country in the West African subregion. It is focused on bringing out the challenges landowners and their agents encounter in their bid to register their land in public land registries. The investigation is from both the government and the public points of view. It uses quantitative and qualitative methods of research
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Why is it important?
The research is important because land registration is an important aspect of economic and social activities in any society. Land constitutes a sizable proportion of wealth in the economy and land transactions are a continuous process of wealth creation and transfer. its registration eases land transactions and improves the efficiency of the land market as it identifies ownership ownership and records land transfers.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a great pleasure as it centres on a diligent and painstaking research in a area that seem to have defied solution by Nigerian governments. Land registration in Nigeria remains at a low level. It is hoped that the article will ginger moves for reforms in land registration systems in various states of the country.
Dr Chukwuma C Nwuba
Kaduna Polytechnic
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This page is a summary of: Challenges to Land Registration in Kaduna State, Nigeria, Journal of African Real Estate Research, June 2018, University of Cape Town,
DOI: 10.15641/jarer.v1i1.566.
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