The Nigeria Land Value Taxation Baseline Study supported by the International Union for Land Value Taxation is a document that examines the experience of Nigeria’s Land Value Taxation using the six Area Councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) namely, Abaji, Abuja Municipal, Bwari, Gwagwalada, Kwali, and Kuje Area Councils as a pilot study. In …
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 …
The poor lost landownership and control in FCT-Abuja Read More »
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 …
MAWA Foundation begins Nigeria Land Value Taxation (NILAVAT-Project) Read More »
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 …
How high cost of land pushes FCT residents to suburbs Read More »