Tag Archives: land grabbers

Community leaders from Adekoyeni, Ajambata, Araromi Orita and Oluwanishola (a.k.a Abule Teacher) in Ogun State have cried out over alleged use of the name of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to seize land unjustly. The leaders, in a petition to the Ogun State government and signed by National Secretary and General National Legal Director of the Movement for Islamic Right and ...

Only last week, we brought you a report on the 21-years jail term slammed on land grabbers in Lagos state. Guess what? They are in the news again, only this time it’s in the South-East region of the country. Armed youths in Nnewi believed to be land-grabbers, last weekend, stormed a prayer ground in Umudioka, Awka South Local Government Area, ...

Land grabbers won’t be called land grabbers if their activities were legal. According to WIKI, Land grabbing is the contentious issue of large-scale land acquisitions: the buying or leasing of large pieces of land in developing countries, by domestic and transnational companies, governments, and individuals. This article looks into the menace of land grabbers in Nigeria and how their activities affect the common ...

Mr. Kehinde Daodu in a chat with Elsie Godwin of Nigeria Real Estate Hub (NREH), pointed out the need for the Land Use Act of 1978 to be severed from the constitution. Daodu, who is a lawyer and have been practising for over 12years also pointed out areas of the Land Use Act to be amended. He called on the ...

The Deeper Christian Life Ministry is battling some land grabbers who have allegedly laid siege to the church’s landed property along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State. According to PUNCH Metro the land, which is part of the Deeper Life Conference Centre and covered about 44 hectres of space, was acquired more than two decades ago by the ministry from four ...