Tag: rule of law

In 1978, while the rest of the world was busy inventing the Walkman and wondering whether disco would ever die, Nigeria’s military government decided the country needed a single, elegant solution to centuries of messy land tenure. The result was the Land Use Act (originally a Decree, later upgraded to Act status and then welded into the Constitution like a particularly stubborn bolt). Nearly half a century later, it remains the legal equivalent of a 1978 Mercedes that still runs, but only if you keep pouring money into the carburettor and never ask why the ghost of the original owner keeps appearing on the title documents