21 Jan

ALWAYS KEEP YOUR LAND DOCUMENTS SAFE

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, […]

21 Jan

PROS AND CONS OF BUYING AN OMO-ONILE LAND

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 […]

21 Jan

10 MOST DANGEROUS AND SHADY PLACES TO BUY LAND IN LAGOS

The list of unsafe lands to buy today was carefully chosen and these are some of them: Before you buy any land in Badagry, you should be careful. So many of the lands there are owned by the government and used for tourism or other things. Don’t fall for scammers who sell land to people […]

21 Jan

LAGOS STATE PROPERTIES PROTECTION LAW 2016 – A DETAILED REVIEW

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 […]

21 Jan

INDEMNITY CLAUSE IN LAND DEALS – WHY IT MATTERS

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 […]

21 Jan

DIFFERNECE BETWEEN A LAND TITLE’S RECTIFICATION and RATIFICATION.

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 […]

21 Jan

RISKS OF BUYING COMMITTED LANDS

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. […]

21 Jan

WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT BUYING A HOME IN NIGERIA

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 […]

21 Jan

LAND MEASUREMENT IN LAGOS

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. […]