LAGOS, Nigeria – Olajide Babatunde, Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, on e-GIS and Urban Development, says the state government has made major progress in modernising land administration and urban development through its Enterprise Geographic Information Service (e-GIS), a project led by the Lagos Geographic Information Service (LAGIS).
Babatunde, made the disclosure during a ministerial briefing on Monday to mark the second year of the second term of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration.
According to him, the strategic initiative, designed to revolutionise land administration, urban planning, and geospatial data management across the state, was transforming how land records, planning data, and geospatial information were collected, processed, and used.
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He said that since the inception of the project in 2016, and the formal establishment of the Lagos e-GIS Office in 2021, the initiative had consistently delivered on its core mandate of building a comprehensive, computerised spatial data infrastructure to support a greater, smarter Lagos.
He noted that the strategic goal of the e-GIS Office was automating and integrating digitisation efforts across key agencies such as the lands bureau, physical planning, land use charge, and office of the state surveyor-general, and coordinating a state-wide mapping and survey project in collaboration with the surveyor-general’s office.
while establishing Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and deploying UAV drones, RTK systems, and cadastral software for precise land mapping and data collection.
He added that the office was also responsible for driving capacity building in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Lagos State civil service personnel, and providing consultancy and integration support for ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs), leveraging GIS technologies.
