Tag Archives: Property

Lagos State has enacted a new Land Use Charge Law In 2001, the Lagos State government passed the Land Use Charge Law which consolidated and replaced all the state and local government taxes payable on property in Lagos State. On 28 January 2018, the Lagos State House of Assembly passed the Land Use Charge Law 2018 to repeal and replace ...

A couple, Ademola Kafaru and Mojisola, who allegedly defrauded their landlady of N490, 000, were on Wednesday released on a N20, 000 bail each, an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court ruled in Lagos on Wednesday. The Magistrate, Mrs O. Sule-Amza, who gave the ruling, also ordered them to produce two sureties who must show evidence of gainful employment. The couple who lives ...

Lagos   –    Mortgage Banking Association of Nigeria (MBAN) on Wednesday expressed readiness to surmount the bottlenecks associated with land title processes through the introduction of “Formula 131’’. The MBAN’s President, Mr Adeniyi Akinlusi, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He said that formula 131 stipulates that the cost of obtaining land ...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has described the Federal Government as a failure. Wike said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration should admit it has failed in securing of lives and property in Nigeria. The Governor was reacting to the massacre of Benue state people by Fulani herdsmen. He was in the state to commensurate with the government and people ...

The Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki was on Tuesday re-arraigned in the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) over false assets declaration. Tuesday’s arraignment followed a ruling at the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal in Dec. 2017 which dismissed 15 out of the 18-counts charges preferred against him in 2015. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalled that the ...

A morning fire outbreak has razed properties worth N2.6 million in Gurjiya village in Daura Local Government area of Katsina State. Malam Abdulmumini Shuaibu, the Officer in-Charge of the Fire Service Sub Unit in the local council made this known in Daura on Tuesday. He said it took his men six hours to quench the fire which started at about ...

Fulani herdsmen have been fingered in a fire incident that destroyed properties worth millions of naira at the National Youth Development Centre Mgbakwu in Awka North Local Government area of Anambra State. The fire, which burnt down the bungalow housing the office of the principal of the center, was alleged to have been ignited by some suspected Fulani herdsmen grazing ...

YORUBA leaders under the aegis of Yoruba Summit rose at an extraordinary session on Thursday in Lagos to denounce the renewed attacks on Yoruba property and persons by Fulani herdsmen, describing such as unwarranted and provocative. This was just as they declared their strong objections to what they termed the obnoxious and vexatious proposal by the Federal Government to establish Cow Colonies ...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered an investigation into the allegations that the former First Lady, Patience Jonathan’s property was demolished in Abuja. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba gave the directive on Monday following submissions by Mrs. Jonathan’s counsel, Mike Ozekhome, that the property was demolished by an agency of the Federal Government. The building belonging to Aruera Reachout Foundation/Women for ...

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, on Monday debunked reports of illegal seizure a property belonging to former Nigerian football star, Nwankwo Kanu. The agency in a statement on Monday described the allegations as ‘inaccurate’ accounts of the details of the controversy regarding the huge debt of the promoter of The Hardley Apartments, Mr. Nwankwo. Mr. Nwankwo had earlier ...