To foster sustainable city growth, increase investor confidence, and make sure that property house owners within the FCT have safe and legally recognised land titles, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has authorised key reforms in land administration within the FCT, efficient Monday, 21 April 2025.
The Director, Land Administration, FCTA, Chijioke Nwankwoeze, made this revelation throughout a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, 11 April 2025.
The reforms, in response to him, embody essential facets of land administration within the FCT, together with the circumstances for granting Statutory Rights of Occupancy, the content material of those titles and Letters of Acceptance, the titling of Mass Housing and the regularisation of land paperwork issued by Space Councils.
Explaining the reforms, the director of land revealed {that a} strict and non-extendable cost deadline of 21 days has been launched for land allottees to make full cost of all prescribed payments, charges, rents and expenses for statutory rights of occupancy. Moreover, a duly accomplished Letter of Acceptance and proof of cost have to be submitted inside this timeframe, failing which the supply shall be withdrawn. Any funds made after the 21-day interval, he stated, can be thought-about invalid.
Moreover, an outlined timeframe of two years has additionally been launched for allottees to develop their land within the FCT, commencing from the date of the Statutory Proper of Occupancy. The transfer, the director stated, is aimed toward addressing income delays for the FCTA, encouraging infrastructure growth and lowering land hypothesis and racketeering within the FCT, amongst others.
On the regularisation of space council land paperwork, the director stated allottees with efficiently vetted and confirmed space council land paperwork can be granted 60 days to make full cost of all prescribed payments, charges, rents, and expenses to obtain statutory titles, in keeping with the supply of the regulation. Failure to conform inside this era will render the presents invalid, he stated.
The director recalled that the FCT administration, in a bid to make sure that all land allotted by the FCT space councils are regularised, as supplied by the regulation, directed the Zonal Land, Planning and Survey workplaces of the six space councils to submit all space council allocation lists, format, recordsdata and registers to the Abuja Geographic Info System (AGIS)/Lands Division which was carried out by the realm councils.
In accordance with him, whereas the FCT Space Councils submitted 261,914 land paperwork for regularisation between 2006 and 2023, solely a mere 3.2 per cent amounting to eight,287 had been vetted, with simply 2,358 regularised.
On the issuance of titles to mass housing tasks and sectional pursuits, the director stated holders and occupiers of properties inside Mass Housing Estates within the FCT will now have a transparent pathway to acquire their titles. He stated subscribers and builders are required to submit purposes for titling to the Division of Land Administration for processing, commencing on 21 April 2025.
In accordance with him, “In recognition of the pressing have to subject titles to the beneficiaries of Mass Housing and Sectional Pursuits, all purposes for titling are to be made by the Subscribers/Builders to the Division of Land Administration for processing. Processing of titles for Mass Housing and Sectional Pursuits shall start on April 21, 2025, in keeping with the brand new operational framework.”
He expressed confidence that these important reforms will streamline processes, improve income technology, curb land hypothesis, and guarantee well timed growth of allotted lands, in addition to present titles to beneficiaries of mass housing schemes and regularise space council land allocations.
ANTHONY OGUNLEYE
DIRECTOR OF PRESS
(OFFICE OF THE HON. MINISTER)
