The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has inaugurated the Electronic C of O (e-CofO) saying that citizens can access their land titles and documents within 24 hours.
Fashola disclosed this at the unveiling of business process automation of certificates of occupancy for Federal Lands on Friday in Abuja.
He said the government was committed to reducing poverty and promote prosperity adding that the digitisation of the federal lands registry would help to increase the value of lands.
He said the generation of secured documents would be printed by the Nigerian security printing and minting to eliminate forgery.
The minister urged interested applicants to begin the process via https://lands.worksandhousing.gov.ng/.
“This is to make life better; the process that used to take three months will now take about 24 hours. As head of the ministry, I will stop carrying loads of documents every weekend with the new innovation.”
The minister, who recalled how he met land title applications dated 1992 upon resumption, stressed that the new process was part of the government’s commitment to reduce poverty and influence prosperity.
“Some of the things I wanted to share are the arrears of C of O that I had the opportunity to process when the president finally delegated the authority to the ministry. Some of the documents date back to 1992.
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“So somebody has been waiting for years to get a C of O and it will interest you that I signed about 6,685 of them during my tenure.
“It may look invisible but this is a step towards prosperity. This is another layer of technology deployment and I urge you to embrace it and keep it going, long after we have leave.”
The minister further urged staff of the ministry to embrace the new change and work judiciously for the benefit of Nigerians as “old habits never die”. (NAN)
