COMPUTERIZED LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM (A CASE STUDY OF MINISTRY OF LAND AND HOUSING GUSAU, ZAMFARA STATE)

ABSTRACT Land is a free gift of nature and a factor of production, land tenure is the name given, particularly in common law systems, to the legal regime in which land is owned by an individual, due to the fact the keeping record of lands and their owners has been a great task to government and the governed, access to land information proves difficult that most times people are defrauded due to lack of land information, illegal sales of lands without the consent of the owner are very common, obtaining certificate of occupancy is a big problem etc. This work ‘Computerized Land Information System’ is designed to help keep record of land which includes: the size of the land, Location of the land, the type of houses to be built on such lands, the owners of purchased lands and so on. This study has been undertaken to specifically examine the land information system which is based on general systematic and up-to-date register containing information about land plots within Gusau State. It is recommended that the Ministry of Land and Housing Gusau sees and embraces this work for convenient and efficient way to keep information of land. It is also recommended that this work should be a starting point on which other programmer’s students and researchers can upgrade on, in terms of picture of land owner, and reduction of data redundancy. This application has been developed to run on c-sharp environment