₦airaland Forum

Fxmanager:
Current inflation rate is 12.5%. If the interest on your Treasury bill is the same or less than the inflation rate, do you know that you are loosing your purchasing power.

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ladylco:
Did he tell you that is all he submitted? this is common sense, he is only referring to the fact that if hotel reservation in addition to all supporting document is made visa can also be granted not necessarily getting invitation letter

That person didnt tell you the true picture. What has correspondent Letter from previous job got to do with visa? Oga this is not true, ask for full details of the application, he must have made reference to the previous job in the initial app that necessitated the VO demanding for it.

For your information all my visa are hotel reservation and i write letter stating my purpose of visit and i always get my visas. I have applied same way with hotel reservation and sites to be visited on behalf of friends/families who are first timers and they all get their visas, with a recent successful application.

That person who gave you that report is leaving you in the dark, ask for evidence before you conclude

You are very correct. I got all my visa with Hotel Reservation, I always write statement of purpose too and I always get my visas and with a recent successful application too still used the same hotel reservation.

lizzybet:
you mean

harmmerd:
Good day, I want to ask a question. Is ireland part of schengen country. Can i use ireland visit visa to enter France or Germany. Then what is the chance of getting job there.

FSBoperator:
You are a fool

An empty noise making Afonja barrel


This is how you claimed GEJ was training snipers to assassinate the opposition and that you topped the list.

This is the end of your mediocre career which had 3rd forces giving you a helping hand.

Go and die already.

You were part of the agents of this failed govt


Bastard baboon.

How I wish Abacha had executed you

fakeprophet:
kazaure that always battle with grammar think he has an opinion. like kazaure, like Yarimo, like Nwgenekwenu, like sarrki, like madridguy all of them are sick in the brain. they should be subjected to any form of scientific definition. I know there is sand or maggots in their Brains

HungerBAD:
Interesting.

I think he has started taking this impeachment thing very serious now. Is he on to something we don't know?I have been looking at the body language of the Northern lawmakers if it is bending towards the impeachment school of thought.

If it is,as I am assuming it is, because of the beehive of activities around the Presidency today, then there is trouble on the mountain for Team Buhari.

Do I even know anybody in the North that I need to give an heads up before it starts burning after Buhari is impeached?No.

OYA Oga lawmakers let us do the needful.

The pictures of those little children killed by Fulani Herdsmen in Benue State still bothers me. It is based on his refusal to provide security to others not considered Fulani, that will make me support his impeachment.

You are the President of Nigeria and not the President of the Federal Republic of Fulani.

akbahbah:
Hmmm... do you think Bullhari is that intelligent to reason this way? Saraki is the nowadays Maradona. He will fall Bullhari big time. Let's keep out finger crossed.

CriticMaestro:
For those of u unfortunate to watch here is a summary,
The suspect confessed to be a political thug for saraki and the present governor of kwara state, there main job was to disrupt elections in places that they elite deemed it will be futile to their cause....so as of the bank robbery case...they took matters into their own hands without any backing from the political class whatsoever, in fact the suspect went further to confess that the chief of staff to the governor gave them two a.k 47 to continue their political thuggery but it was actually a retired police officer that gave them 5 a.k 47 they used in carrying the robbery...out of pure greed and wickedness they planned and executed the bank robbery...the suspect said and I quote "it is the devil that made them Rob" well that's what they all say after being caught....so as many of u logical lots see no reason why a governor and a Senate president will order a bank robbery when they have abundance of wealth at their disposal....this confession proves that ur logical thinking is right....
No connection to the robbery whatsoever...
Case dismissed

Edu3Again:
This APC is the worst calamity to befall 9ja.

The current 9ja govt operates as a Fulani current dealing with all who stand in their way!

domack99:
Few times I have wonder if those farmland being advertise really worth buying, apart from the economic and business sense of buying a an acres in the bush for 200,000 naira or more, I sometimes ask if this land are really yours after paying those villagers millions of naira to acquire several acres/hectares.

Ofcourse individual can own a land but there is a process to follow, not sure if these processes are follow.

The second link below summarizes the land use act. you can view the first link for full details of the sections (part)

http://www.nigeria-law.org/Land%20Use%20Act.htm

Summary of the Land Use Act Decree No. 6 of 1978 in Nigeria http://nigeriaenvironment..com/2012/11/summary-of-land-use-act-decree-no-6-of.html

Introduction
From time immemorial through the period of agriculture to the period of industrial development, land has remained the most valuable property in the life of man and his development. It is a source of wealth to those who have it and the mother of all properties. In other words, virtually all the basic needs of human existence are land dependent. In view of the importance and usefulness of land to man and his development as well as the development of his society, every person generally desires to acquire and own a portion of land to achieve the various ends for which the land is meant. Therefore, to make land in Nigeria available to all and to ensure that land is acquired and put to a proper use for the needed development, governments during and after colonial period enacted laws to govern the use or administration of land in Nigeria.

Prior to the enactment of the Land Use Act in 1978, there were three main sources of land law: Customary Law (varied from custom to custom), English received law (which comprises of the common law, doctrine of equity and statutes of General application), and local legislation. There was also a duality of Land Use System in the southern and northern parts of the country.

The Parliament of the then northern Nigeria passed the Land Tenure Law in 1962, which governed all interest affecting land. The Land Tenure law vested all land in the governor who was to hold land in trust for the people and only rights of occupancy (not rights of ownership) could be granted to other people. The consent of the governor was required before any alienation of interest in land could take place.

In the then Southern Nigeria, however, customary system of land tenure governed land interest and land was owned by communities, families and individuals in freehold. Land was acquired either by inheritance, first settlement, conveyance, gift, outright purchase or long possession. There were also crown lands, which were acquired by the British Crown by virtue of treaty, cession, convention or agreement. When Nigeria attained independence, such crown land became known as state land.

Notwithstanding the existence of laws regulating land, the problems of land tenure and land administration persisted both in the Northern and Southern Nigeria. There were new problems such as land racketeering and speculations. Exorbitant compensations were demanded by landowners whenever the government acquired land for development. Thus, acquisition of land by government or individuals was becoming almost impossible in Nigeria.

In fact, one of the major factors that was said to be a stumbling block against efficient implementation of the Second Development Plan 1975-1980, was lack of land for development project. To break this barrier and monopolies of landlords, the Federal Military Government set up some panels to consider how best to solve the problems associated with land tenure and administration in Nigeria. The report of one of these panels i.e., the Land Use Panel of 1977 eventually formed the basis of the Land Use Act No. 6 of 1978.

The purpose of this essay is to show the relevance of the Land Use Act to Land-use planning in Nigeria.

Summary the Land Use Act of 1978
The Land Use Decree (now Land Use Act) was promulgated on 29th of March 1978 following the recommendations of a minority report of a panel appointed by the Federal Military Government of the time to advise on future land policy. With immediate effect, it vested all land in each state of the Federation in the governor of that state (Fed. Rep. of Nigeria, 1978).

The Act vests all land comprised in the territory of each state (except land vested in the Federal Government for its agencies) solely in the hands of the military governors of the state who would hold such land in trust for the people.


The promulgation of this Act was as a result of two main factors:
•Firstly, was the diversity of customary laws on land tenure and difficulty in applying the various customs of the different people.
•The second factor was the rampant practice in southern Nigeria with regards to fraudulent sales of land. The same land would be sold to different persons at the same time giving rise to so many litigations.

The Act distinguishes throughout between urban and non-urban (rural) land.
•In urban areas (to be so designated by the Governor of a state), land was to come under the control and management of the Governor.
•In rural areas it was to fall under the appropriate local government.
•“Land Use and Allocation Committees”, appointed for each state by the Governor, were to advise on the administration of land in urban areas.
•“Land Allocation Advisory Committees” were to exercise equivalent functions with regard to rural [/b]land.

[b]The Act envisaged that “rights of occupancy”, which would appear to replace all previous system or rules of inheritance to land, would form the basis upon which land was to be held. These rights were of two kinds: statutory and customary.
•“Statutory rights of occupancy” were to be granted by the Governor and related principally to urban areas.
•“Customary right of occupancy”, according to the Act, means the right of a person or community lawfully using or occupying land in accordance with customary law and includes a customary right of occupancy granted by Local Government under this Act.

Local governments were empowered to grant customary rights of occupancy to any person or organization for agricultural, residential and other purposes with the proviso that grants of land for agricultural or grazing purposes should not exceed 500 or 5000 hectares respectively without the consent of the State Governor. With the minor exception of land subject to Federal or State claims, the Act also empowered the local government to enter upon, use and occupy for public purposes any land within the area of its jurisdiction and to revoke any customary right of occupancy on any such land. The approval of the local government was to be required for the holder of a customary right of occupancy to alienate that right.

The Act prohibits the alienation by assignment, mortgage, transfer or possession, sub-lease or otherwise, of customary right of occupancy without the consent of either the Governor or the Local Government as the case may be. It also prohibits the alienation of statutory right of occupancy without the due consent of the Governor (Land Use Act, 1978: section 21 subsections a and b).

Governors were empowered to revoke rights of occupancy for reasons of “overriding public interest.” Such reasons included alienation by an occupier without requisite consent or approval; a breach of the conditions governing occupancy; or the requirement of the land by Federal, State, or local government for public purposes. Only in the last of these cases would any compensation be due to the holder, and then only for the value of unexhausted improvements on the land and not for the land itself.

There are four main objectives derivable from the act and these are:
1.to effect structural change in the system of land tenure;
2.to achieve fast economic and social transformation;
3.to negate economic inequality caused by the appropriation of rising land values by land speculators and land holders; and
4.to make land available easily and cheaply, to both the government and private individual developers.