By: News Peddlers 

Babajide Sanwo-Olu 

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has unveiled the state's land administration portal, the electronic Geographic Information System.

This comes as the state government begins electronic land registration across the state.

The Governor, while unveiling the portal on Friday, stated that it was part of his administration's strategy to grow business in the state.

He stated that the portal will reduce all forms of manual registration, eliminate the need for applicants to physically appear at lands bureau offices, and allow residents to register their lands from the comfort of their own homes, pay all necessary fees online, obtain their title document, and apply for a Certificate of Occupancy, among other registrations.

He added that this will also eliminate the unnecessary cost applicants waste on several layers of the process.

He said, “Therefore, it is critical to highlight that innovative automated process has transited land transactions in digital format, integrating them into our registry and as a result transactions significantly reduce and save costs, meaning that the era of hiding files, or missing files is gone.

“Everything will be digitally available.”

Sanwo-Olu noted that this would also help to foster collaboration among government agencies.

"So, we believe that we begin to see effective information in our various offices. Therefore, the launch of the portal grants our esteemed customers the privilege and right to access our services.

“It provides a secure shopping cart experience, self-serve options, easy online record and data search, and the ability to analyze sites, to analyze sites traffic and to know the trend through traffic, through the tracking of reports at the back end, can actually do an audit of them and know how well an additional customer can enjoy a unique, exceptional service and the opportunity to track application progress, provide comments and receive immediate feedback complaints,” Sanwo-Olu added