If you have land anywhere in Nigeria — or your family does — do this:
→ Find out if a C of O exists. Check with the state Land Registry.
→ If no C of O — begin the perfection process with a property lawyer. Now.
→ If you are buying land — never pay without Governor’s Consent and registration in your name.
→ If family land has never been registered — it is vulnerable. Every day it remains unregistered, it is vulnerable.
The family that registers first usually wins.
Do not let that family be someone else.
Four years. ₦4.2 million in legal fees. One medical diagnosis. Eight months of two brothers not speaking.
That is what it costs to recover what should never have been taken.
But it was recoverable — because Mrs. Adeyemi knew where to look, and because there was enough paper trail to prove the fraud.
Some families are not that fortunate.
Some families lose. Permanently. Because the fraudster perfected the title before they did — and there was no fraud to prove. Just a gap in the paperwork.
Your land should not depend on luck.
At Legalnaija, we believe that access to legal knowledge is national infrastructure.
Not knowing the Land Use Act should not cost a family their inheritance.
Not knowing what “perfecting title” means should not undo 32 years of a teacher’s savings.
Find a property lawyer you trust.
Register what your family owns.
Understand the paper before you sign it.
The law protects what is documented.
Always.
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The Land Use Act of 1978 is the foundation of every land dispute in Nigeria.
Under it, all land belongs to the state government.
You hold a right of occupancy — granted by the Governor.
That right must be registered to be enforceable against third parties.
This is not a technicality.
It is the entire architecture of land ownership in Nigeria.
And most Nigerians who have “bought land” — have not been told this.
Baba Adeleke was not a negligent man.
He was a careful man who did not know what he did not know.
He bought land the way his community had always bought land — receipt, survey, witnesses, presence.
Nobody told him that the law required something else entirely.
That is the real theft in this story.
Not just Lekki Prime Estates.
But the gap between the law as written and the law as understood by ordinary Nigerians.
That gap is where families lose their inheritance.
Here is what does NOT protect your land in Nigeria:
→ A receipt of purchase
→ A survey plan
→ Omo-onile approval or levies
→ Family witness at point of purchase
→ Photographs of you standing on the land
→ Years of paying “caretaker fees”
→ A handwritten agreement, even witnessed
Here is what DOES protect your land:
→ A registered Deed of Assignment
→ Governor’s Consent (for any land transfer in Lagos and most states)
→ A Certificate of Occupancy in your name, perfected at the Land Registry
If you do not have the second list — you do not own land.
You occupy it. Until someone with registered paper arrives.
There's problem. There's problem. There's problem.
We are continuously reminded how In Nigeria, there are only two classes of people.
The insanely rich and the insanely fucked.
No inbetweens.
Absolutely immense season. Champions of England. Didnt lose a single UCL game in full time. Rivals waited until the last kick of the season.
Never been a better time to support Arsenal. He is staying. He is hungry. He will fix the roof while the sun is shining.
Arsenal FC ❤️
This Arsenal celebration just showed me that if you think you love Arsenal, there are fans who love Arsenal even more.
But overall, this beautiful football club means so much to all of us. Through pain, joy, hope, and glory, Arsenal will always unite us all around the world ❤️❤️
My Arsenal fan followers, I want to wait until after the Champions League final before sharing our winning package.
We are looking at 15 Arsenal jerseys from Nigeria 🇳🇬, 5 jerseys from the Arsenal store in the UK 🇬🇧, and 1 laptop for my most consistent Arsenal fan on here❤️.
May 31st. Be there ✍️
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