noblelizzy:
Thanks @Babs612000. Very helpful!
But do I have to pay a seperate fee for Govt. assessment or this already included in the survey plan payment?
And do you or anyone have an idea of what the stamp duty fee is? I was told is 10% of the land purchase price, is this true? Please does anyone has any idea on this stamp duty fee on building plan in Sango Ota Ogun State?

noblelizzy:
@Babs612000, I just got your 300k now after reading your comment again...thats for the building plan approval.

Babs612000:


Yes just for the building plans approval all fees are included stamp,assessment.

noblelizzy:
Hmm thanks so much! I was giving separate fees and estimate for both stamp duty and assessment. We(my husband and I) are far away from Nigeria and we want to be very careful not to spend triple cost on any thing and no way for us to confirm since we not there. I just joined this forum 2 days ago and its been very helpful!

We are planning to build 4 bedroom bungalow too (but all rooms en suite),.


1. Please it will be more helpful for me if you can please tell me just the total cost you spent on yours just for us to have a rough idea of what it will cost us. Please you can send the reply to my email-noblelizzy1@yahoo.com or is ok if you can give me d total cost here too.
2. Is it possible you give me the phone number and the name of the surveyor that did yours? My brother lives in Sango Otta and I will ask him to connect with the surveyor
3. Did the surveyor give you a "Red Copy"? This makes the registration of the land authentic with the Govt as we learnt.

Thanks so much, you are saving us a lot of money from the information you gave me.

Babs612000:


Have just answered you on my trend on the total cost have spent so far.

I am also far away from Nigeria l am base in UK and do go home once or twice in a year.
Yes l can give you his number will send that to your mailbox later in d day.NOTE he only works in Ogun state only.
Definitely I have the Red copy that is the survey plan with you need for building plans approval and for C of O.

You are most welcome.

5p1naz:


hehe im an architect, and i'd like to explain a bit of that part to you. . . it's cheaper because, the [size=14pt]architect does all the thinking[/size]. . . i mean all the thinking. . . the architect not only draws, he designs. [size=14pt]draw and design are two different things[/size]. . . so the architect does all the thinking about how to make your building [size=14pt]safe, functional and aesthetically pleasing[/size], so that you money pays off at the end of the day. . . the stuctural engineer only comes in around the safety corner, even though the architect had worked a bit of that part already.

@poster, good work here. . .

Aventures:
very informative post from lawyer. I really appreciate that lawyer mention that he is not too certain abt the professional charges that you can haggle it out. the type of bldg used for the case study is not mentioned, if the bldg is bungalow then structural drwg is not needed except in a swampy area that may involve raft fdn and some  other structural element. Also it should be noted that from a storey building and above approval requires complete five set of structural detailing and calculation sheets duly signed by a COREN registered engineer. and the truth is that for a storey building duplex and others 35k is no where a good compensation for all the effort involve in the structural wrk, printing of six set of 10 pages of A3 detailing cost close to abt 15k will 20 k suffice for engr that will design and detailed or commissioned CAD technician to detail not to talk of the engineer that will stamp and put his practicing license on line, Aba, 35k is just not worth it. It is also worth noting that all this charges are not professional charges, there is a government regulated standard scale of fees for all sort of professional in building industry, so all this charges are based on individual prerogative and bargaining power.
Well i also noted that somebody said it is only architect that designs well sorry sir it seems you dont know the definition of design. the word designing is not specific to architect only Mech, elect, civil structural, water, environmental engrs all of them designs in their various field. Moreover structural engr is responsible for the safety of the structure and hw does he do that, he goes thru a rigours calculation to determined the type, size, spacing and arrangement of reinforcement, he gives specification on concrete strength, reinforcement strength, column positioning, fdn depth and so many others all these are the "design" he goes an extra Lenght to put all his result into drawings which is very tasking even more than archi drawing, despite all these architect get a little bit higher paid than structural engineer just because he is the initiator who puts the clients idea into a reality.