ABSTRACT

Integration of documentation and information based computerized services in information system is a tremendous means to help land and housing estate professionals in their daily practice and to improve its quality. Effort is continuously being made in designing and developing economically and reliable land information management system. With this background, this project work focuses on the design, development and deployment of a computer based land information management system, using the Osun State Ministry of Land and Housing as a case study.

In this work, the project approach involves the following steps: a feasibility study is carried out in the Osun State Ministry of Land and Housing to get insight into their activities; investigation and fact finding to extract a wealth of knowledge from their staffers; model design and implementation of land information management application using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and crystal report pro which constituted the front end (user interface), and Microsoft Office Access 2003 as the backend (database) component; and finally the training of the would-be users through the use of user manual which explains every detail the user need to know. 

The developed land information management system makes it possible to keep a database of all the lands in the state, enables retrieval of land information with a fast response time, thereby enhancing quick access to land and housing records, among others.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ContentsPages

Title Pagei

Declarationii

Certificationiii

Dedicationiv

Acknowledgementv

Abstractvi

Table of Contentsvii

List of Tablesix

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.1General Introduction1

1.2       Statement of Problem2

1.3Aim and Objectives3

1.4Methodology3

1.5    Motivation for Present Work4

1.6      Significance of the Study4

1.7Scope of the Study4

1.8Definition of Terms5

1.9Report Organization5

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1Land Property7

2.2Classical Liberals, Objectivists, and Related Traditions 10

2.3Land Tenure21

CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1      Overview25

3.2Methodology and Approach Adopted 26

3.3Analysis of Existing System 27

3.3.1Limitations of Existing System28

3.4Proposed System Design28

3.4.1Input Design30

3.4.2Output Design31

3.4.3Database Design31

3.5System Development33

3.5.1System Development Tool34

CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Overview35

4.2System Implementation 35

4.2.1Choice of Development Tools36

4.2.2Hardware Requirement36

4.2.3Software Requirements37

4.3System Documentation37

4.3.1Installation Guide38

4.3.2Users Guide38

CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

5.1       Conclusion39

5.2Contribution to Knowledge39

5.3Recommendations40

REFERENCES41

APPENDIX 1 (SYSTEM INTERFACES)43

APPENDIX 2 (SOURCE CODE LISTING)49