Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: 2.1, Federal University of Technology, Owerri (Environmental science), course: Urban and Regional Planning, language: English, abstract: This study focuses on the challenges and prospects of land registration in Akure South local government area of Ondo state, Nigeria. Many land owners have outdated documents regarding their land, or do not even have documents to show that they are truly the owner of the land that they claim to be theirs. This has caused a lot of problems in time past, where people fight and sometimes go as far as killing themselves over land disputes. Also, on the side of the government it has been difficult for them to keep a comprehensive record of land owners because most of them won’t come to register. Land registration issues are more dominant among private estates because the registration of most government owned estates are done when allocating the land. A multi-stage sampling technique was used, and the stratified random sampling technique was used for the estates selected within Akure south, then the Simple random sampling technique was used to obtain the respondents within the respective estates. From the research carried out, the findings showed that many land owners are aware of the implication of not registering their land, and they wish to register their land but they feel the process of registration is too complicated, stressful and expensive, some don’t even know how to properly get their land registered and they end up getting duped by fraudsters, while a few of them fear that their land might be revoked if they go back to government for registration. The Solutions proposed to thesechallenges is to first create awareness on how to properly get a land registered, and also make land owners know the importance and benefit of registering, creating a stronger data base that would replace the old pen and paper style which is long outdated, introducing the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) which would help to capture and store data of land owners effectively, reduce the time frame used in carrying out the registration process to make it less stressful and discouraging, lastly to subsidize the registration fee for the first set of people who come to register after the awareness is made.

A theoretical framework to guide empirical analysis of how land registration affects financial development and economic growth.

Based on surveys of two villages in Bulacan, Central Luzon and two agro-areas in South Cotabato and one in Basilan Island, both in Mindinao, conducted in 1990-91.

A (former) law reformer's perspective : reforming the LRA 2002 : catalysts and questions / Elizabeth Cooke -- The land registry's perspective : the practical challenges of land registration / John Pownall and Richard Hill -- The land registration jurisdiction : an analysis of the first twelve years / Edward Cousins -- A broader development perspective: economic and political drivers of worldwide land registration reform / Pamela O'Connor -- Adverse possession under the LRA 2002 / Owen Rhys -- The continuing relevance of relativity of title under the Land Registration Act 2002 / Amy Goymour and Robin Hickey -- Guaranteed title : no title guaranteed / Emma Lees -- Can rectification be retrospective? / Charles Harpum -- Assessing rectification and indemnity after Gold Harp and swift 1st / Roger Smith -- De-throning King Midas : the new law of land registration in Scotland / Kenneth GC Reid -- Lack of proper care? / Simon Cooper -- Reforming the indemnity scheme / Nicholas Hopkins -- Priority contests involving registered titles / Martin Dixon -- Subrogation, priority disputes, and rectification : mapping a route through the thicket? / Stephen Watterson -- A tale of three promises : setting the scene / Stephen Watterson and Amy Goymour -- A tale of three promises : (1) the title promise / Stephen Watterson and Amy Goymour -- A tale of three promises : (2) the priority promise / Stephen Watterson and Amy Goymour -- A tale of three promises : (3) the empowerment promise / Stephen Watterson and Amy Goymour -- Lessons from Scottish land registration reform : changes under the bonnet? / Emma Waring -- Automating state guarantee of title systems : system design and possible outcomes? : Australasian thoughts / Rod Thomas, Roushi Low, and Lynden Griggs