Tag Archives: Court

The multi-billion naira Safetowers Estate located at Ikate, Lekki, Lagos and promoted by Safetowers Mortgage Bank Limited and Macbosh Properties Limited has run into controversy which attracted the invitation of the EFCC (Economic and financial crimes commission) following contractual disagreements between the developers and an investor. Conceived in 2013 as a 3 blocks high rise building comprising 16 units of ...

Justice Saliu Saidu of a Federal High Court in Lagos, has fixed January 19, 2018 to entertain and rule on a motion filed by EFCC before the final forfeiture to the Federal Government of Flat 7B, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos. The anti-graft agency said that the wife of the sacked Director-General of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency, ( NIA )Folashade Oke, as the ...

In a bid to recover a debt of N11.2 billion, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON ) has dragged the Olofa of Ofa Kingdom in Kwara state, Nigeria, Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi and his two companies, Zarm Poultry and Feeds Mills Limited and Zarm Stores Limited before a Federal high court in Lagos. In a statement of claim filed before the ...

A Sokoto Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered the remand of 48-year-old  estate agent, Lawali Maigara, for alleged land fraud. The defendant was accused of defrauding one Mubarak Bello of Fakon Iddi area of Sokoto of N400,000 on land transaction. The defendant was arraigned on a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust and cheating, offences contrary to Sections, 312 ...

“A 71-year-old widow, Mrs Edna Osaghae has petitioned the Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode over alleged plots by some officers in the office of the State’ Surveyor General to illegally take over her Magodo property.”- PM News According to the petition dated September 20, 2017, a copy of which was made available to newsmen on Sunday, the widow said ...

The Nation reports that a Nigerian bus driver used a fake British passport so he could live in a council house for more than a decade, a court heard. Christopher Aghalibe, 53, allegedly submitted the document along with his application for housing to the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in September 2000, according to a report by Mailonline. The ...

The Guardian reports that Justice T.A.O Oyekan-Abdullahi has ordered Property Mart Real Estate Investment Limited to stop further construction work on its Grenadine Homes project located at Sangotedo, Lagos. Justice Oyekan-Abdullahi gave the restraining order following a motion on notice filed by Complete Leisure Estate Nigeria Ltd alleging that Property Mart Ltd had trespassed on its parcel of land where ...

Vanguard reports that the children of a Lagos socialite, late Chief Olatunji Ajisomo Alabi, a.k.a, Lord Rumens, have filed a suit against the Bank of Industry Investment and Trust Company Ltd before a Lagos State High Court, over alleged mismanagement of their father’s N5.6billion estate.  The children who are Babatunde, Oladipo, Subuola, Awojuola, Rukayat, Olukemi and Adeola Alabi, had on ...

“The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized a hotel allegedly belonging to Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan.” – Signal The anti-graft agency also seized three other properties in Abuja allegedly belonging to Patience. The five-storey hotel is located near Setraco Construction Company, beside Mabushi Kado Expressway. Although the hotel has not been officially valued ...

According to The Nation, an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court has ordered the police to arrest a property developer, Felix Ezeamama, and bring him to court on a charge of unlawful property demolition. Chief Magistrate O. O. Oshin (Mrs) issued the warrant following Ezeamama’s failure to appear in court over an allegation that he masterminded the damage of twin blocks of flats ...