International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VII, Issue III, March 2020 | ISSN 2321–2705

Urban and Rural Land Use Dispute in Nigeria Ethnic Group: Challenges of Rural and Urban Residents over Landed Property and Tittle

Ubani, Princewill¹, Kio- Lawson, Datonjo², Iyowuna Jonah^3
 1,2 Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Ken Saro – Wiwa Polytechnic Bori, Nigeria,
³Department of Surveying and Geomatics, Rivers State University Port Harcourt, Nigeria,
*Corresponding author

Abstract: The research assessed the causes of urban and rural land conflicts inikwerre ethnic nationality Nigeria. The investigations centred on urban and rural land dispute in ikwerre ethnic nationality and the relationship between residents of urban and rural communities and land dispute. The questionnaire was employed to obtain data on sources and causes of ethnic land dispute from residents. The study identified the 9 causes of urban and rural land dispute and revealed that scarcity/ land value price, boundary dispute, land use change, urbanization, violent demolition enforcement, compensation challenges, sharing of diseased property, land owners and human right violators are among the sources of urban and rural land dispute. In addition, the study also shown that there was a strong positive connexion between urban land dispute and non-indigenes of (r = .178, p<.05) and a positive moderate relationship between families and rural land dispute (r = .321, p<0.5). However, there was a negative relationship between land acquired for public purposes and urban land dispute ((r = – .055 p > .05).

Keywords: urban, rural, land, dispute and challenges

I. INTRODUCTION

Land dispute occurs when incompatible claims to right over a particular land by different parties, attentive on a specific portion of land that may be handle inside the current legal foundation of a nation. In sub-Sahara African, Lands designated residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and agricultural and transportation properties in either rural or urban settings always generate dispute or controversy triggered by individuals of similar or diverse ethnicity who exercise unconditional or possessory right over a delineated geographical space. Such dispute may be caused by administration of deceased estate or property under intestacy, encroachment, violation of planning scheme, survey plans, customary allotment of site, family or locality farmland sharing, etc.