GAZETTE
In accordance with the Land Use Act, all land belongs to the State government so the Governor is the owner of all land even the one in your
village, and he alone will determine what to do with the land not even your
Igwe, Oba or Emir.
So it is only when the Governor has taken the land he
want to use that he give the remaining to the traditional family head to do whatever
they want to do with it.
An important example is what happened in Oniru, before now
there was nothing like Victoria Island, Ikoyi or Lekki. The whole area put
together was formally known as one big community called Oniru and it has an
approximate total area square meters estimate of 100,000 square meters and the
government was interested in that area and decided to take 70,000 square meters
for its self for its own personal use as an Urban Area or public purpose, it
will record this acquisition in the official government gazette and also record
that the remaining 30,000 square meters has been left alone for the traditional
family to have and do with it whatever it pleases it to do.
So A Gazette is an Official record book where all
special government details are spelt out, detailed and recorded. A Gazette will
show the communities or villages that have been granted excision and the number
of acres or hectares of land that the government has given to them.
It is within those excised acres or hectares that the
traditional family is entitled to sell its lands to the public and not anything
outside those hectares of land given or excised to them.
A Gazette is a very powerful instrument the community
owns and can replace a Certificate of Occupancy to grant title to the
Villagers.
A community owning a gazette as a land document can
only sell lands to an individual within those lands that have been excised to
them and the community or family head of that land has the right to sign your
documents for you if you purchase lands within those excised acres or hectares
of land. If the government based on some reasons best known to
them decides to revoke or acquire your land, you will be entitled to
compensation as long as it’s within the Excised lands given to that community.
The best way to know whether a land is under
acquisition or has an excision that has been covered by a Gazette is to get a
surveyor to chart the site and take it to the surveyor general’s office to do a
land information search so as to confirm whether it falls within the gazette
and spell out which particular location it can be found.
The characteristics of a Gazette Land:
The first page of a Gazette must have the following characteristics, otherwise, it is a dubious or fake Gazette
a. The Logo of the Country and the inscription of the
title “LAGOS STATE OF NIGERIA OFFICIAL GAZETTE”
b. Underneath it must have the Number, Volume, Page,
Date and the Location it was signed into law e.g No 26 in pages 200 to 291,
Volume 87 dated 14th of August 2011 and have the contents of the list of the
Villages, Settlements and parcels of land excised back to the community.
The Inner pages will show the following:
a. The description of the Area or Village excised
b. The number of Acres or Hectares of land excised to
the Village
c. Where the boundaries of the beacons start and stop
d. The page the description of the Village excised is.
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