BREAKING: FG Suspends All Land Allocations on Islands, Lagoons In Nigeria

FG has suspended all land allocations on Islands, Lagoons and ordered fresh submissions to Surveyor-General.

NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the Federal Government has suspended all approved, pending, and planned land allocations and Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) on islands and lagoons across the country.

The directive, announced on Sunday by the Surveyor-General of the Federation, Surv. Abduganiyu A. Adegbomehin, followed a presidential order issued by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on July 30, 2025, placing a moratorium on shoreline, coastal road, island, lagoon, and other federal legacy infrastructure developments nationwide.

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According to the statement, all existing and pending applications must now be resubmitted to the Office of the Surveyor-General of the Federation (OSGOF) for proper coordination in line with the National Geospatial Data Infrastructure Policy (NGDI).

The government warned that any developments encroaching on rights-of-way or carried out without proper survey clearance would be demolished, while approvals issued outside the Presidency or OSGOF including those backdated are subject to revocation.

The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has also been directed to submit all past approvals it granted for lagoon and shoreline projects to the Presidency via OSGOF and desist from issuing new ones.

This move consolidates the authority of OSGOF under the Survey Coordination Act, Cap S13, Laws of the Federation 2004, as the only institution legally empowered to regulate and harmonize survey activities in Nigeria.