Land Administration Domain Model in Review towards the Adoption as a Reference Model for Land Administration System in Nigeria

LADM covers the relevant information identified with the parts of land administration together with those over water and components beneath the earth surface. The standard provides a unique conceptual model together with three packages and sub-package. It is characterized terminologies for land administration system that allows a common portrayal of various informal standard or formal tenures. The standard additionally offers the establishment for regional and national profiles and permits the mix of land management information from different sources in an articulated manner. Given this, this study began with the depiction of land and land administration in Nigeria. The dialog of the pre-Colonial, Colonial and post-Colonial period and the hierarchical structure is important in order to exhibit an understanding foundation of the improvement required for LADM adoption in Nigeria. LADM and the packages were discussed and appraisal of the diverse elements of each class and packages was made with Nigerian land administration. In the comparison made, it was discovered that the model (LADM) could be effectively embraced into Nigerian land administration. As per this study, the terminologies used are not absolutely the same as a rule, but rather new one might be presented and fittingly clear in a version. The conclusion is that LADM can be adopted by mapping a portion of the ideas of LADM standards into Nigerian land administration system.