This kind of Land Scam is aimed at our brothers and sisters abroad who work hard to send money back home to their family members to help them buy land or build houses on their behalf, only to come back home and find that the money they sent back home was either wasted or spent […]
What if the Omo-oniles really stole your land and sold it to someone who has already started building on it?What can you do to show that you own it? What if you are already a victim of Omo-onile and you have already been cheated out of the land you saved millions of Naira to buy, […]
When people buy Land in Lagos or Ogun, one of the worst things they can do is not make a plan for how they will use the land they paid a lot of money for. We fall in love with the place, the vendor, and the price of the land but we forget that this […]
Land scams are becoming more and more common in Lagos, Ogun, Port Harcourt, and Abuja, and purchasers are tired of falling for them. Bad people are pretending to own land, but the land they say they own and want to sell actually belongs to someone else. Because the system is so broken and there are […]
LAGOS STATE PROPERTIES PROTECTION LAW 2016 – A DETAILED REVIEW Introduction If you live in Lagos, you’ve probably heard about land grabbers called “omo-onile.” They have a dirty habit of selling the same piece of land to several different people, which makes the public laugh at them. So, they get rid of the legal owners […]
The word “indemnity” is used in contracts by lawyers. It means that someone gets paid back for a loss or debt they have. It has been described as an agreement between two people, the indemnitor and the indemnitee, that the indemnitor will pay the indemnitee for a loss that the indemnitee has suffered. You can […]
Don’t get mixed up. Rectification and Ratification are two different words that sound the same. Rectification means to fix a serious mistake on a document. Ratification means to give formal approval to a contract or agreement, making it legal and binding. Before we can figure out how Rectification of Title to Land is different from […]
There are terrible risks to buying a committed piece of land in Lagos without checking it first. Buying committed land is a sure-fire way to get your property taken away without any compensation, and if you’re stupid enough to build something on it, the Lagos State Government will tear it down without a second thought. […]
Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, means almost everything when it comes to property business or deals. Lagos is the centre of Nigeria’s real estate business, which is why investors both big and small, from Nigeria and other countries, see it as a place to invest. Even though the city feeds people by giving them […]
A PLOT. In Lagos State, a plot is usually 60ft x 120ft (18m x 36m, or 648 sqm), but in some other cities in Nigeria, plots are 50ft x 100ft. AN ACRE. Land vendors use an Acre as a standard unit of measurement. An Acre is almost the same size as a standard football field. […]
Nigeria has many different kinds of buildings, from mansions to bungalows to terraces. All of these different kinds of homes are different in some way. The whole field of architecture is about designing and building these kinds of buildings, with an emphasis on how they look. Some types of homes have come and gone from […]
