A Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Muyiwa Agunbiade, has said about 70 per cent of properties in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre, are not captured in the government’s registry.
Mr Agunbiade also disclosed that no Nigerian state has a cadastral map which provides exact locations and ownership of landed properties.
He said Nigerians only mistake base maps for cadastral maps, insisting that their interchangeable use is not only inappropriate but also deceptive.
Mr Agunbiade spoke recently at a workshop organised by UNILAG’s Faculty of Environmental Sciences. It was part of the activities to mark the university’s 2025 edition of the annual International Week programme.
He said the failure of the government to get these properties properly captured has also denied the government access to supposedly accruable revenues, addi
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