The land use act and economic rejuvenation in Nigeria: the legal conundrum

The administration of Land in Nigeria involves certain diversified issues such as the act of running and controlling Land affairs or taking decisions over the use and disbursement of Land and its resources. It also connotes the idea of supervising and administering the use to which land is put in the society. More so, it involves all conceivable measures adopted by Government to keep, protect and develop land and its resources for productive adventures such as farming, grazing, mining, wood processing and so on. The Federal Government of Nigeria has carry out series of reforms in the Land sector, one of such is the promulgation of the Land Use Act, 1978. These various attempts apart from the positive impact on the availability of land have not substantively been able to promote a programme of Land Use and management that support effective wealth creation, economic growth, food security, poverty reduction, enforceable and land rights and housing delivery and infrastructural rebirth. This paper attempt to appraise the impact of the Act on the economic rejuvenation in Nigeria and the attendant Legal inhibitions.