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…

Many Real Estate Companies in Ibeju Lekki blow the biggest lies to hoodwink you to buy their fraudulent lands. Their wayo tricks include the following:   (1) The Excision is coming out next month scam:   How many times have you heard this line from a fraudulent marketer or Agent to hoodwink you into buying defective land?   “The Excision is coming out next month that’s why they want to end sales in 3 days time then increase the price of the land to N5million once the Excision is out. If you wait till the excision comes out,  the price…

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…

In the last 4 years, I have seen so many property buyers suffer the pains of being scammed by Land fraudsters. These land fraudsters have so many tricks up their sleeve to dupe innocent land purchasers ranging from showing the buyer other people’s lands that do not belong to them or presenting forged or fake title documents to deceive and coerce them into buying problematic lands.     With this in mind, Omonile Lawyer presents to you our Top 10 Unsafe Lands to buy. These lands have been carefully selected after a series of pain-staking background checks carried out by…

Buying a Land that is committed is a one-way ticket to getting your property revoked without compensation and if you foolishly construct a structure on it, it would be happily demolished by the Lagos State Government with no remorse.     There are so many wicked Sellers, Agents, Developers, Lawyers and Surveyors who knowingly take advantage of the ignorance of buyers to sell their lands that they know outrightly belongs to the government but due to their innate greed, still, go ahead to market the land for sale. They have no empathy or compassion for the victim and only see…

In legal circles, the word “indemnity” is used in contracts. It means recompense for any loss or liability which one person has incurred. It has been defined as an obligation undertaken by a person called the indemnitor/indemnifier to provide compensation for a particular loss suffered by another person called the indemnitee/indemnity holder.     A claim to an indemnity can arise by either by operation of law or by contract. It must also be noted that an indemnity can be made subject to the rules of damages. The indemnifier bears the primary obligation with regard to the amount of the…

Introduction   If you live in Lagos, you must be aware of the activities of land grabbers popularly referred to as “omo-onile” who have constantly taunted the public with their polluted habit of either selling a particular parcel of land to several persons.     Hereby dispossessing lawful owners from their lands or demand for endless charges from lawful owners of properties who have begun the process of building on their lands for roofing, decking, flooring etc.     Their activities have helped record a decline of investments in the real estate sector by investors in Nigeria particularly, Lagos state…

The Lagos State Building Control Agency LASBCA, weekend demolished a nine-storey building at Osapa London in Lekki area of Lagos for allegedly contravening building plan regulations.   The nine-storey building demolished by LASBCA at the weekend for not having approval The General Manager of the Agency, Mr. Olalekan Shodehinde, said the demolition was also because the building had no certified plan approval.   The nine-storey building demolished by LASBCA at Osapa London, Lekki area of Lagos   Shodehinde said the building was detected in 2017, following which an investigation was launched, stressing that the building had nine floors, while the…

Welcome to Omonile Lawyer’s LIST OF RISKY AND DANGEROUS LANDS TO BUY , a section that gives you a rundown of some of the Worst Areas, Estates, Places and dubious Lands offered for Sale in Lagos State today that will surely guarantee you to lose your money and incur the Wrath of the Lagos State Government for buying a Land that is not supposed to be sold. Today’s set of Unsafe Lands to buy have been carefully chosen after a series of strenuous Land Individual Investigation, Verification and Background  Checks carried out by the Omonile Lawyer Team. They include the…

Arising Land Scam Questions My mail box is filled with thousands of mails regarding Land related issues Omonile Lawyer readers are facing and i would attempt to answer most of them. Majority of these questions consists of  land purchases gone bad , lands bought without  due diligence, people asking me to recommend good lands for them to buy.   Lands that are devoid of wahala or just simply steps to take before they purchase a new land so that they won’t fall victim of Land scam artists. Some cases are serious, some pitiful, some down right hilarious and some frightening….

For a while now, i have waged a relentless war against fraudulent land sellers called Omoniles especially in those in Lagos and have tried to expose all their deceitful practices to dupe people off their hard earned money.   But today I’m going to change course to raise awareness on another way people are being duped concerning landed issues and this particular  kind of Land Scam is dedicated to our Brothers and Sisters Abroad slaving themselves to send money back home to their family members to help them purchase a land or build houses on their behalf only to finally come…