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The Nation reports that the Soremekun Fletcher family has debunked the claims that it has no title to the Ofada land in Ogun State in a suit with Baale Rabiu Adewunmi and 13 others. At a media briefing in Lagos, the family’s lawyer Chief Adekunle Funmilayo said the Appeal Court in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, affirmed High Court’s decision ...

“The Chief Judge of Lagos State recently gave the Landlords Association of Shangisha, Lagos authorisation to enforce a 2012 judgement of the Supreme Court in its favour, after a long-drawn legal battle with the Lagos State Government over a prime piece of land consisting 549 plots. Now, the Landlords are asking everybody who did not buy land from them to ...

Vanguard reports that an Ikeja High Court was on Thursday thrown into confusion after a witness slumped and died in the court just before testifying in a land case. The deceased who was in his late 30s had come to court to testify in a land dispute before Justice O.A. Olayinka. “Before the case was called for trial, he started ...

Since the enactment of  Nigeria’s Land Use Act in 1978, there have been many outcries concerning it. The controversy surrounding the Act is as heated as the corruption war of the Buhari administration. This article views the gains and the loss of Nigeria’s Land Use Act and how it affects the average Nigerian. Nigeria the pearl of the black world ...