Land

Land Value Tax in FCT Community Viewpoint

The poor farmers that spoke to MAWA-Foundation at the FO1 area of Kubwa in Bwari Area Council of FCT, in different narratives, gave accounts of how their lands located around the Military Pension Board along Daughters of Charity Hospital were taking over without any form of compensation. They gave accounts of how they lost ownership

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MAWA Foundation begins Nigeria Land Value Taxation (NILAVAT-Project)

1 Comment / Special Reports / CDC

As Abuja Nigeria’s capital city is growing at about 13% rate, the city is struggling to provide basic infrastructure and services for its inhabitants, and that leads to escalating inequalities. A vast number of the population, lack access to housing, healthcare, education, electricity, transportation, water, sanitation, etc. And, as urbanization is rapidly taking place in

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How high cost of land pushes FCT residents to suburbs

1 Comment / Special Reports / CDC

A huge number of FCT residents now live in the suburbs and commute to the city centre, a situation many of them say they are forced into because they cannot afford land in the city centre because of its expensive nature. The Abuja Geographic Information Systems (AGIS) has since hiked the price charged on land

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Land Value Development Financing: FCT-Abuja Community Viewpoint

The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja

MAWA Foundation begins Nigeria Land Value Taxation (NILAVAT-Project)

How high cost of land pushes FCT residents to suburbs