Blockchain Technology for Managing land Titles in Nigeria

Abstract

Blockchain is a trending technology that has paved way to solving various challenges in different sectors.It has received much interest from researchers over the years, as it is known to be a transparent, secured, no third party and tamper-proof public records repository system for documents, contracts, properties and assets.land title as being a major challenge in Nigeria due to the fact the existing traditional system, used to manage the sector is not effective, thus brought about issues such as, double spending, tamper, third party interference, it is not transparent.Hence the need for blockchain technology.The methodology considered for this research is ethereum blockchain with smart contract which is written in solidity programming language.The research clearly shows the result of using ethereum blockchain to manage land title and how the challenges of land title has been solved.This paper examines Blockchain Smart Contract for managing land titles in Nigeria.Specifically, it presents a detailed smart contract for land title and transfer between owner (government) and buyer.