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The indispensability of land as a veritable resource and bastion upon which, the very survival of mankind rests, has been an indisputable fact over the centuries. It goes without controversy, that the supply (or put better still, the delivery) of this all-time important asset, has over the period of man’s existence, been shrouded in one form of restrictions or the other. It is also needless to say that such restrictions are varied, as they dovetail into one era or the other, and are impacted by the traditions, cultures, ethos and idiosyncrasies of people, in whom ownership or at least ‘usership’ of such lands were vested; which eminently determined how land was being supplied for productive activities. This situation has undoubtedly impacted adversely on the general control and administration of land and its vast resources, since the cumulative consequential outcome of this trend, has given rise to a pre-conceived configurative template by which land administration system is being structured. Sadly to note that that this has copiously been hampering the smooth delivery with which residential lands, especially within urban milieu would have been dispensed. Therefore, it is against the above background, that the study was conducted as part of a doctoral research, to unravel the nexus of these structural and culturo-behavioural nuances of land administration system and the formal delivery of residential land. Essentially, on the one hand, is to gauge how the former impacts on the latter and even vice-versa, and on the other hand, to convoke leading ideas that are beneficial towards solving the myriads of challenges that are associated therewith. Hence, 5 point Likert scale questionnaires were administered upon 450 targeted respondents (career and tenured officials of land agencies, independent land consultants and developers within Nigeria’s southwest), as the sample size from among the total sample space of 2408, from which 850 constituted the sample frame, using simple random, convenience and purposive methods of sampling, from which 427 were retrieved and screened for analysis. The 416 questionnaires that survived the integrity tests were analysed via AMOS’ version 18 software for the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), demographics and normality for reliability. Among the results are that the style of the configuration of land administration system’s organisational entity allows for unbridled rivalry and thus makes much needed synergy building extremely difficult amongst the constituent departments and sections, among the resultant effects of which is deliberate jettisoning of responsibilities with attendant belated delivery of services. Among the recommendation is the exhibition of political will by the government to restructure the land administration system, so as ensure timely synergy as the need arises, towards hitch-free delivery of residential lands in Nigeria.

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