Land Use Act and Socio-Economic Development Imperatives Aneze, E.U

Department of Surveying & Geoinformatics
Enugu State University of Science & Technology, Enugu
Email: emmaeze2004@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Land is among the most valuable natural resources bestowed on man. His life is a repertoire of efforts to interact with land to provide his needs since the dawn of civilization. However, the riches of land can be destroyed and / or exhausted if mismanaged. It is therefore incumbent on man to adopt a proper land husbandry
procedure to ensure that the resources of land are used to satisfy his needs of today and at the same time conserve some for tomorrows needs. This paper highlights the origin of land tenure system in Nigeria, the desirably or other wise of the land use Act,
main provisions of the Act and the provisions of the Act and the challenges of MDGs. The discourse was able to buttress the view that the land use Act was conceived with noble objectives, but its implementation over the years has been fraught with problems
thereby constituting a dog in the wheel of national development and an impediment to socio-economic growth of the nation.