LAGOS STATE LAW AND THE COMMITTEE ON BOUNDARY MATTERS: A LEGAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

Boundaries constitutes one of the main attributes of a State as a subject of international Law or as aconstituent part of an Independent State. Without a determined and a particularly specified and delineatedboundary a States cannot effectively claim a territory or determine the location of itself amongst other States.With development extending to territorial areas that were not earlier taken as useful or important, issues ofterritories determined by boundaries continue to rear their heads especially in a cosmopolitan city as Lagos.This paper has set out to investigate and do an analysis of the law establishing the Lagos State boundaryCommittee and the attendant issues touching and concerning boundary matters and record its conclusions.