Land title delays crippling Nigeria’s property market –Ubosi

By Maduka Nweke
Chudi Ubosi, the Principal Partner of Ubosi Eleh & Co., a Nigerian firm of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, has a message for government at national and sub-national levels: make it easier for Nigerians to get land titles and ultimately develop the economy.
According to him, land title delays are keeping Nigeria’s wealth locked up as 90% of the country’s land cannot be fully used.
His firm, founded in 1991, has championed the need to free Nigeria’s land from title document horror.
In this interview, he spoke on land titling and other real estate-related matters.
He stated that Nigeria today sits on 927,000 square kilometres of land, and less than 10 percent of ...