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Inhabitants’ expansion and increasing utilization by a marginal of citizens in the order of the earth are aiding universal land grab Africa being a major end. The pathetic and pathological aspect of this is that the best land is under fire for a grab.

In Africa report has shown that the continent has about 134 million hectares of land deals. The hurry to grab farmland may be attributed to 2007-2008 earth food price predicaments. Despite the fact that agricultural making was the…

The earth is lord and the fullness thereof and the “land shall not be sold in perpetuity for the land is mine (says the lord) for man is a stranger and sojourner….” By the above quotation, land is deemed to be a divine creation. As stranger and sojourner on earth, man lives on land and turns the virtues of land to his uses. Lands has continued to play a unique role in the process of the development of the human society. The achievement of man is such affected by what he makes of the land he…

In Niger Delta, oil exploration has been marked by protests by the indigenous communities about the negative impact of oil companies, corruption and the failure of oil wealth to be translated into better and decent living conditions. Most recently, armed groups have explicitly sought resource control on behalf of the oil producing communities , and have engage in the oil theft and in acts of violence are sometimes claims as the retribution for the treatment of the people of the Niger delta…

Rural poverty is a factor we cannot divorce in all our daily life discussion especially as it concerns human existence. People of urban poor experience many deprivations. The deprivation ranges from inadequate admittance to employment prospect and earnings, lack of housing, insanitary surroundings, absence or minimal social security, and so lots of others. Rural poor has lots of defenselessness to jeopardy. There is no doubt that today more than half the population of universe lives in…

Society must adjust its failure and everybody must be taken along if this must succeed. Scarcity, joblessness and inequalities are clear graphics of our contemporary societal collapse and all hands must be joined together to address this. Society must address the economic causes of penury and gross inequality. Society has refused to pay concentration to forces of capitalism which pilot accumulations of riches and supremacy in the hands of minority at the expense of majority. Obviously, the…

People’s access to land rights constitutes the basic building block for livelihood and sustenance of individuals , families and communities, especially in agrarian societies.

Land reform program brings about changes in social power balance, rules and norms, as well as institutional structures; and as such they tend to provide some regulation to some societies, while creating sources of conflicts for others. However, it needs to be stressed that with or without land reform, tension and…

Expanding women's right to use land is fundamental to battle food shortage and penury. Nevertheless, gender differences to gain access to land is still a big issues in virtually all the countries in the world particularly Africa and this no doubt impedes development both in rural and urban cities.

Land axiomatically, makes it available for rural dwellers to have essential needs for survival and market making. Land gives out what all humans need to live and be alive. Even…

The large quantity of natural resources also causes disagreement, particularly during periods of explosion as each section of people gets involved in the fight to have a share of the bonus and this seems to be a universal scenario. Disagreements in excess of natural resources are bound in all over especially when one takes a critical look at the issues. The sufficing examples are oil in Nigeria, diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, land in Zimbabwe and water in the Horn of Africa.…

 The large quantity of natural resources also causes disagreement, particularly during periods of explosion as each section of people gets involved in the fight to have a share of the bonus and this seems to be a universal scenario. Disagreements in excess of natural resources are bound in all over especially when one takes a critical look at the issues. The sufficing examples are oil in Nigeria, diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, land in Zimbabwe and water in the Horn of Africa.…

Have you wondered what the life of the poor will have been if you do not stand to fight for them and support them. I have looked at the entire world and I have discovered that those who do not cherish and enjoy living on the face of the planet earth are the poor. I have also known that the poor ones on the planet earth are not poor because they do not deserve to be rich no, the rich have made it practically impossible for the poor to keep suffering. The liberation of the poor is not about…

Africa as a continent has witnessed lots of communal crisis as a result of land disputes. besides that, the urban poor  who live in the city cannot access land because the Government and the rich have taken over  the land and the poor ones who do not have money to buy Land are been denied right to the Land in spite of the fact that Land is a free gift of Nature from God.

In Africa many have been denied the right to build a house on the Land just because he or she is not an indigene of…

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