Land Matters

The Onikogbo of Ikogbo, Ogun State, Oba Nurudeen Osoja, has called on the government and law enforcement agencies to help retrieve the community’s land from thugs. According to him, all the expanse of land in Ikogbo in Ado- Odo Ota Local Government Area belongs to the community. He said the community had been exercising unfettered right of ownership on the ...

The owners of the land acquired by the Ekiti State Government to build an airport have sued the state and demanded N650million as damages. The plantation farmers dragged the state government and Governor Ayo Fayose to court for what they described as “unlawful and forcible acquisition” of their land. In a suit number HAD/71/2015 filed before an Ado Ekiti High ...

The Delta State Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Urban Development, Sir Dan Okenyi, has set up a committee to identify undeveloped plots of land earlier allocated to individuals and organisations in the metropolitan area of Asaba, Delta State capital. The committee, headed by Mr. Alex Eboka, will identify plots that were yet to be developed by their owners two years ...

Hundreds of residents of Amuzu community in Ezza South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State have protested plans by the state government to take over a vast expanse of land belonging to the community. Reports said the state government was planning to use the land, among many other hectares of land across the state, for mechanized farming to improve the ...

Processing a building plan approval is one of the most intricate aspects of erecting a structure. I like to think of building plan thus: Every idea starts with the gift of imagination! However, it has been proven that even the shortest pencil is better than the longest memory. Imagination needs to be captured otherwise it becomes a thing of the ...

At the presentation of the report carried out on the Edo state revenue generating reforms carried out by former chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue service. Governor Oshiomhole who immediately signed the report seized the opportunity to clear the air on the land use charge law. Governor Oshiomhole noted that the target of the Land Use Charge Law is not ...

A 46-year-old landlord, simply identified as Sunday, was last Friday arrested for allegedly raping a 10-year-old daughter of his tenant at Bonugo village in Kwali Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). A source who craved anonymity disclosed this to our reporter on Sunday, saying the incident happened after the victim’s parents, who are tenants in Sunday’s house, went ...

Doctors at the Central Hospital in Benin City battled to save the life of one Alex Aigbogun who was stabbed in the stomach by his landlord, simply identified as Enogieru. The victim rushed to the hospital at about 9:00am Wednesday by policemen in a Hilux van. Eyewitnesses said the incident occurred at about 12:00midnight, but the victim’s family has no ...

This is the last part of the series – Before you purchase that Lagos property. Last week we talked about the Acquisition/Purchase proper when it comes to property acquisition in Nigeria with reference to Lagos. Here is the concluding part: EFFECT OF NON-REGISTRATION Where documents created over a land transaction are not registered it renders such documents inadmissible in a ...

THE ACQUISITION/PURCHASE TRANSACTION PROPER This is the second topic in the series – Before you purchase that Lagos property Last week we talked about the legal framework preceding the acquisition of land in Nigeria with reference to Lagos. This week we will be looking at the processes involved in the purchase and acquisition of such property. Now, where the Purchaser’s ...