Court Stories

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over a property located at 8 Taylor Road in Ebute Metta, Lagos and owned by G. Cappa, a Nigerian construction company. The seizure of the property arose from the construction company’s alleged failure to pay a debt of more than N1.2 billion. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in ...

LAND MATTERS – An administrator of the properties of the late Pa Kayode Fashina, a philanthropist, is concerned that the Lagos State Government is surreptitiously trying to grab their property in Ikoyi, despite ruling by a Federal High Court that Lagos should back off, Bennett Oghifo reports Last week, Governor Akinwumi Ambode inspected the property on Plot 439 Karimu Giwa ...

If found guilty, some officials of Lagos State Government, working with the Lagos State Urban and Renewal Agency (LASURA) and the State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) may be committed to prison over an allegation of disobeying a court in an ownership dispute of property located at number 49, Martins street, Lagos Island. But the state government has debunked the claim ...

Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), Abuja and others have for the second time won a legal battle over the soul of a choice landed property, Plot 1337 Asokoro District A04, FCT, Abuja, courtesy of a Court of Appeal, Abuja. Also on the winning side with FCDA are the Minister, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and one Mohammed Sanni. By the judgment ...

A former Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Michael Aondoakaa, on Monday lost the bid to claim a N50 million property at the Abuja Prince and Princess Estate. Mr. Aondoakaa, and his brother, Ordoo Aondoakaa, were locked in a legal tussle with an Abuja-based business man, Friday Audu, over the ownership of a two-bedroom house in the estate. Claiming to ...

This was an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal, which set aside the judgment of the High Court of Kebbi State given in favour of the appellants. The Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, dismissed the appeal  Following their inability to convince the Supreme Court of Nigeria on their claimed ownership of a landed property, eight indigenes ...

The Houston Housing Authority found itself in the middle of a sticky lawsuit this week when the agency tried to use eminent domain to “steal” two historic churches’ property as part of an urban renewal project. A Texas attorney representing the two churches is alleging that the city intended to use some of that property to build a for-profit business. ...

Dispute over Lekki land – A proposal by the Lagos State Government, through its agency, New Towns Development Authority (NTDA) to convert the original use of a landed property located at Plot 8, Block 138, Lekki Peninsula Residential Scheme 1, Lagos State, known as NEPA Reservation for another use is raising some dust within the fast growing town. The land, ...

A real estate agent who held several open homes in a former Headhunters gang house so contaminated with meth that one visitor suffered dizziness and a clogged mouth has escaped misconduct charge. Real estate agent Gary Murphy and the agency he worked for, Property Link Groups Ltd, were each charged with misconduct over the sale of the Auckland house. In ...

A Federal High court in Lagos has ordered that four companies associated with former Enugu State governor, Chimaroke Nnamani, be forfeited to the Federal Government. The four companies – Rainbownet Nigeria Limited, Cosmos FM, Capital City Automobile Nigeria Limited and Renaissance University Teaching Hospital – were convicted by a judge of the Lagos court, Mohammed Yinusa, on Tuesday after pleading ...