Introduction You thought you were making a smart investment, but now you’re standing in the middle of a nightmare. The deed in your hand is worthless, and the property isn’t yours. Imagine the moment you realize that the property you’ve just poured your hard-earned money into is nothing more than a scam and you’re the latest victim. The excitement of owning land or a house has been replaced with the crushing realization that you’ve been conned, all because you didn’t verify.   The Immediate Shock  The first thing that hits you is a wave of anger and shame. How could…

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…

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…