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Introduction: (a) legal notions of property (b) historical evolution of land law in Nigeria (c) sources of Nigerian land law (d) working terminologies – ownership, possession, titles, rights, liability and land. Customary land law/Islamic land law: (a) modes of acquiring title to land, settlement; expansion; loan or borrowing; pledge or pawn; gift; conquest, allotment, kola tenancy (b) concept and ownership of land: (i) nature of title to land (ii) control and management of community land – individual rights and extent of community land today (iii) creation of family land – nature and extent of member’s right in family land; control of family land, alienation of family land, recovery of family land. Improvement by a member of family land, termination of family land (iv) an outline of succession to rights in land. Legal regulation of property: (a) the Land Use Act – state control of land; grant of right of occupancy; what Certificate of Occupancy connotes; alienation of Certificate of Occupancy; revocation of Certificate of Occupancy; compensation for revocation (b) relationship between Land Use Act and State land law (c) an outline of control of natural resources – minerals, water and forests; agrarian reforms (d) rights and interest in land – freehold, joint tenancy, tenancy in common, prescription, laches, acquiescence, leasehold, easements, profit a Pender, covenants, mortgages, (e) registration – registration of instruments, registration of title.

Management theory and principles in relation to landed property. Management evolution, principles of management, forecasting, planning, organization, co-ordination, control, motivation, communication. Advanced concepts of land and interests in land (estate). Motives of property ownership, land tenure system in Nigeria, management of private and public estates, estate records. Landlord and tenant relationships, tenancy agreements and obligation of parties. Management of multi-tenanted property. Computerized property management systems - rent reminders, account updates. Agency and marketing of real estate. Duty and responsibilities of estate agents; collaboration and multiple agency methods and challenges.

Public projects: definitions, policies and practices of public procurement. Needs and objectives of public procurement. Public procurement Act (2007) of Nigeria. Institution, procurement committee and their functions. Organisation, planning and implementation of procurement processes. The consultant procurement reporting. Bureau of public procurement; national council of public procurement, bureau of public procurement, ministerial parastatals tenders board, ministry or parastatals procurement planning committee (NPPC/PPPC). Tender action; prequalification, verification and analysis, invitation for bids, bid opening, evaluation, reports.

The development of quality concepts: quality assurance, quality control, statistical quality control, the total quality management concept, quality management; General principles of quality management processes. ISO concepts for quality. Development of quality standards in construction; the client and his brief, Quality management during construction stage; Builder’s role of integrating designers’ inputs; achieving quality in the finished project through the process, Builders’ responsibility for quality. Development of quality management plan for a project. Site management responsibilities in quality management. Inspections and testing materials and construction processes. Handling corrective actions. Assessment of quality craftsmanship of artisans and craftsmen. Establishment of quality Records for a project. Quality tests, site project reports, and carrying out early warning systems. Building management monitoring and control from inception to completion to ensure quality project. At the end of this course, the student will utilize knowledge gained to develop project quality management Plan for any particular project.

Estimate of current population characteristics and factors used in forecasting. Methods of population forecasting, trend projection, regression, ratio and apportionment, migration and natural increase growth composition analysis, metric of framework and allocative forecasting methods. Introduction to quantitative method, time series analysis, regression analysis, index numbers, linear programming and transportation network. Analysis of variance, scaling techniques, types of scales, social distance, social-metric measurement. Frequency distribution, comparism and complex tables. Statistical tests of hypothesis, mathematical models used in town planning simulation models, headship rate model, gravity model, rent model and demands models.

Review of descriptive and basic inferential techniques. Hypothesis testing. Bivariate linear correlation and regression. Analysis of variance. Multiple liner correlation and regression. Principal components and factor analysis. Forecasting techniques. Possibilities and limitations in planning practice and research.

Introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics, parametric and non-parametric tests; Survey design and sampling techniques, Elementary statistical analysis of spatial patterns.

Introduction to models and their testing, Advanced statistical techniques, Inferential Statistics; qualitative data analysis, spatial data analysis. Introduction to statistical behavioural models. Use of statistical software (SPSS, EPI INFO, MINITAB, STRATA, eVIEW) in analyzing Geographic data.

The role and importance of real estate. Parties in real estate, Real Estate Development Processes, Finance. Off takers, Demand and supply side for real estate, Technology options for mass housing, Financial and legal aspects of real estate and housing development. 500 Level

Nature of regional planning and regional development. Formal, functional, administrative and planning regions, their unifying characteristic; the regional planning process; delineation techniques, analysis of regional change and growth, economic base theory, spatial and economic structure analysis of regions, goals formation surveys and analysis, preparation of the regional plan, regional plan implementation, monitoring and evaluation.