Over 500 people have been defrauded ₦8,000,000 each by a Real Estate Company at Abijo after selling wayo lands to them in 2021 and have not allocated a single plot to any of their subscribers.   Angry subscribers stormed the office of Peace waters a real estate company that sold lands to many subscribers at Abijo without giving them any allocation despite the continuous promises to conduct allocation to its subscribers.   The subscribers wanted a refund of their money since they realized the lands they bought were “One Chance” lands but the directors and developers had disappeared into thin…

Do you want this to be you in this picture fighting Omonile or a dubious agent on the road because you did not verify the land you bought from him?   Many people choose to listen to Agents or Omoniles to buy land from them without verifying it.   Many people fall for the same stories or lamba these crooked agents or omoniles tell them such as:   The land no get problem. Na our family land.   The land get C of O or Gazette.   Na you go be the first person for the land no worry.  …

Don’t buy any land marketed as “Excision in Process”. It’s a Scam. Lagos State is no longer issuing Excisions.   Too many real estate companies are out there selling lands to unsuspecting buyers using “Excision in Process” as the document they have to sell their lands. This is very dangerous.   Rather Lagos State now grants personal government land allocation to individuals or companies who intend to purchase lands in bulk once you apply for it.   All Excision surveys and files that were being processed during Amode’s time have been stopped by Sanwo-olu. No Excision would be processed at…

Do you know that Wayo Real Estate companies in Ibeju Lekki have successfully duped thousands of people over ₦500 million Naira since January 2022 because they were able to convince these Victims to buy their lands without verifying them?   Many of these victims today don’t have any land allocated to them as promised. Many of these victims are holding worthless deeds of assignment. Many of them don’t have any survey plans. Many of them paid for these lands and later realized that the lands belonging to the government or the community where the lands are located have issues or…

Nigerians abroad who want to buy lands or houses in popular areas in Lagos such as Lekki, Ibeju Lekki, Ajah, Epe, and Ikorodu, etc are at the mercy of fraudulent real estate agents, dubious developers, and wayo real estate companies, crooked omo-oniles and dishonest sellers.   They have no one to tell them the truth about the genuineness of the land or house because of the distance between them and the property they intend to purchase.   These Nigerians abroad can only rely on the pictures, and videos the scammers send to them and word of mouth guarantee from the…

New Land Fraud Alert: Beware of Fake Lagos State Governor’s Consents used by scammers to dupe you of your life savings. Land fraudsters in Lagos are now selling wayo and suspicious lands with fake governors’ consent. Thousands of people have lost Billions of Naira purchasing lands with fictitious Governor’s Consents sold by these dubious real estate fraudsters.. Learn how to spot a Fake Governors Consent

Always get your own Lawyer to represent you in any property deal before you sign any property document.   One of the most painful things that would never leave my mind that prompted me to be a Property Lawyer has to do with this topic.   My grandmother was a victim of legal naivety and ignorance and invested all her life saving to purchase a parcel of land in the early 60s and built a 4 storey building to accommodate her children and grandchildren as a family home in the village only to lose the land and the house due…

Everyone’s prayer is to grow old happily and pray for your loved ones to take care of us till we die but this wasn’t the case for this Old woman whose children and their friends colluded to sell her Only property to my client without her consent and put my client in trouble for buying stolen property.   Grab Your popcorn to hear Gist!!!   My client was desirous of buying a property on the mainland and only wanted a property that had either a C of O or the Governor’s consent. This proved to be very difficult to get…

Omonilelawyer was contacted by a young couple to assist them in recovering N6,000,000 paid to a popular real estate company for a piece of land in Ibeju Lekki who defrauded them. The young couple claimed a part of the money was given to them as a wedding gift by an uncle while the remaining was sourced through joint savings. Instead of lavishing the money on frivolities and luxuries, the couple agreed to invest the money in real estate as a way of securing their future.   Having heard several dreadful stories about Omoniles over the years, the newlyweds decided to…

In 2012 i wrote about survey plan scams and it went viral. 8 years later in 2020, the need to re-write about these kinds of scams are just as important as it was then for people to be aware of the dangers of being in possession of a very fraudulent survey plan since many crooked real estate companies are springing up everywhere more especially in Ibeju Lekki. For those who have not seen a survey plan and you want to differentiate between a genuine survey plan from a fake one, please read this article to learn a lot about survey…

Real estate fraud especially in Lagos deeply hurt and affected over 500,000 victims last year and resulted in over N5 Billion Naira in losses traced to dubious real estate developers, unscrupulous agents, shady land or home sellers and deceitful Omo-onile customary landowners. Personally I have prevented over N300 Million Naira fraudulent land transactions this year alone and the numbers keep on increasing. Along the way, I have met smart buyers who claim to be very savvy in real estate matters but still ended up as victims to these property scammers because they refused to seek professional help from more experienced…

Whenever I try to educate people about the hazards of buying land without conducting a verification, I get a lot of reproaches, accusations and unpleasant comments from people ( Mostly dubious individuals to be honest). Some go as far as saying am a harbinger of bad news or creating mere fictional stories to scare people. With this in mind, I have decided to reluctantly expose the foolishness of one client (Name withheld) for attempting to purchase land without going through due process to verify a land. I will also show you the result of purchasing that property.     The…

Like a scene in one of these dumb Nollywood movies which we never really expect it to happen in real life, I came across one of the most elaborate hoaxes to defraud a client. Mr Babatunde through his agents was able to locate a property he was desirous of purchasing at Alapere Ketu Lagos.     After inspecting the property the agent now told him that it was a safe property to buy because it had a C of O. Mr Babatunde then decided to contact me to conduct a background check on the property and C of O. My…

Property buyers especially in Lekki, Elegushi, Agungi, Ajah, the Eti-Osa Environs and parts of Ibeju Lekki should be very wary before buying a property that has a Governor’s Consent because most of these Governor’s Consents have been questionably acquired at the land registry.     This is because falsified and forged survey plans have been presented by the Owners to the land registry to register. Due to the lax and porous process of obtaining a Governor’s consent at the land registry, dubious owners have perfected the art of presenting forged survey plans that are outside the original location of the…

Let me just drop this List here for you to ponder for 1 minute.   Nigerians are their own worst enemy. How can someone struggle to find a good property to buy without wahala, spend so much money to acquire the land from Agency fees to Survey plan fees and when its time to take possession of the land, the community now presents this Stupid ” OMO-ONILE FEES” to you? If you choose not to pay it, they would prevent you from working even if you bought the land for N100 Million.   To put Foundation on the land N200,000…