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Okay sir take your time.

@Brabus you know want answer my question?

@Brabus what is the standard recommended mix ratio to 1 bag of cement to headpans of sand using Dangote cement, with today's cements how long do the takes to dry or compound in time of a decking work on a building.

@ihebrooke I hope this Spyder job is your design? please feed our eyes with another astonishing style of your imagination creative.

@professor Spyder well done, what an amazing job. In speed of light.

@helpee, na waoooo can you imagine you're calling from other side of the world trying to get progress report on your house. This is what happen to us every dam day when doing business in Naija, from sanding cars to cell phones,electronics many other things. same story, it's even worst with family members. Even some friends that are rich that come to west see how people work hard for their money, go back try to rip you up. The just believe your money is their right.

@Emperoh I'm sorry for the distraction, just trying to help brother with information.

@Prince_onx you nerve told me that your land is federal land, my brother you're in the wrong place oh. Federal housing Authority were the office that handle Federal land issues, for example Ikoye west, Aboru in Ipaja, satellite town, festac town, etc, if you have land there you have no business with Alausa. They have their office in festac that handle all the paper work. Do some years back when Tinubu was in power he was the one that introduce this WAHALA to max in revenue on most federal lands in Lagos, most have some kind of Lagos state tittles so he can raise revenue. This is why most of the land in banana Island were yet to be develop. If one look at his vies in my opinion is right, his point was that state as right to denied building permit to any building plan that as federal tittle in state according to LAND ACT OF 78 in the constitution. It's a lot of story to these, I don't like writing essay. I like to take some nap on this for now guys. I will post a link for people that apply paid for federal C OF O that don't collect them from Government thousand of them already issued years back.

@bugmenet those day are gone, you can't get to build without consent if you have global C of O.The will not approves your building plan, it is one of the vital document to proved ownership of the land, this as being in force for about two to three years now. Put it these way, it another way of making money for the state.

@bugmenot you right, the global C of O is for large expanse of land. That dose not mean you could get your building plan approved with your global C of O. To get your plan approved you most include the copy of the global C of O with the other relevant documents, to proved right of ownership of your land. To now applied for Governor's consent on your name as part owner of the large land. You then apply for building approver for your house. Mostly C of O are issued once always for virgin land form omo o Nile. Do same land owners apply for their global C of O before selling there land. Mostly global C of O are often issue to land developers in estate like project. When you brought a land with global C of O same of the development levy are already being paid before the global C of O is being issued, that save the buyer some money.
PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE.
Congratulations on finding the money to buy your plot of land or that flat/house. But don’t go parting just yet, you should make some of your investment by obtaining Governor’s consent to the transaction and registry your title at the Lands Registry. How much will this cost?

What is assessment?
The fees you will be liable to pay are percentage of the value assessed on the land or property.

You will be expected to pay a total of 13 percent of the assessment (13% is broken down as Consent fees 6%, Capital Gains Tax 2%, Stamp Duty 2% and Registry fees 3%. Note that if you are buying land which is a state allocation where the statutory allocation has been for less than 10 years, the consent fee is 12% not 6%.

The key thing to note is the assessment on your land or property. The State Government has come up with guides to help applicants have an idea of what the assessment would be. For land, it has come up with applicable rates in every location in Lagos. These rates are then multiplied by the size of the land to get the assessment. (See rates on table below)

For developed properties, it has rates for the high brow areas of Ikoyi, South west Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Victoria Island Annex, Dolphin Estate, Lekki, Parkview, Apapa and Ikeja GRA. For developed properties in other areas, the land Services Department’s Valuers prepare the assessment

Is there exception to the charges?
No, there is no exception, any individual or corporation organization who purchases property must pay the fees. If you are buying a land and the person you are buying from does not have the consent, after buying the land you are expected to get the consent with your own name, the reason is that the government can come up tomorrow and try to takeover that property from you, the government’s consent serve as your proof of ownership.

How is tax on transaction calculated?
For people who have been regular in tax paying, this should not be an issue to them. If you are buying a land and you have a proof that you have been paying your tax, then you don’t have any problem with tax on the property transaction. But if the person you are buying from had defaulted, it is either the person pay his tax or you pay on behalf of the person. If the company has been paying its tax, then there is no issue with transaction tax. For a company, it would have to show proof of tax payment. If there is a default, the company would have to pay tax of the property transaction. For an employee, he would have to show evidence that he has been paying his tax, if not he would have to pay tax of the property transaction. For the joint buyers, both of them must show evidence of taxpaying, failure would mean that would jointly pay the transaction tax. It now depends on whose name they want the tax issued, both of them can decide to share the burden equally.

Applicable rates in different locations

@bugmenot you right, the global C of O is for large expanse of land. That dose not mean you will get your building plan approved with your global C of O, to get your plan approved you most include the copy of the global C of O with the other relevant documents to proved right of ownership of your land. To now applied for Governor's consent on your name as owner of the part of the large land, then apply for building approver for you house. Mostly C of O are always for virgin land form omo o Nile. Do same land owners apply for their global C of O before selling there land, mostly global C of O are often issue to land developers in estate like project. When you but land with global C of O same of the development levy are already being paid before the global C of O is being issued, that save the buyer some money. You can't get building approve with global C of O.

@Prince_onx you remember I told you before you leave for Naija to process your C of O it worst when it's come to Governor consent in Lagos State. When I get home in evening I will try to post the consent fees by location of land in the state. Men if you no push envelop it may take for ever, or your file will get lost in the system oh. This is why many people keep building without C of O. I have a case that still pending in Alausa after paying all the official fee at one point the file got loss. When my partners get to the OGAs at TOP the file resurface, that was two years ago, still didn't get it yet my brother. This was after pushing the big envelops oh.

Now may be many of you guys will learn how to listen when people from other side of the world are talking, can you imagine after 4 decades in the west send all your kids to college finish paying your mortgage try to build your retire home in Naija and this kangaro contractors trying to rip you off, how will you feel. BABA IF YOU'RE STILL IN NY CITY YOU MAY KNOW ME IF YOU'RE ACTIVE IN YORUBA COMMINITY AFIARS.I WILL LIKE TO MEET YOU ONE DAY SHA. IT ALL GOOD, DONT COUNT YOUR SELF POOR. POOR PEOPLE CAN'T PAY COLLEGE TUATION IN AMERICA, THE SCHOOL FEE OF ONE CHILD COULD BUILD YOU ONE OF THOSE NAIJA MANSION LONG LIFE OH, STAY BLESS SIR.

@spyder880 May I ask how far is this building to the power tension cable that I saw in one of the pictures. I hope the radiation of the power tension is not going to affect the resident of this building in the future. It could be far away from the building am just curious to ask this question.

@Hajji Mufutau it the same situation in Abuja, you can't get building approval from development control without fully paid your grand rent and all other fees including C of O. People still take laws in there hand, they start building without development control approval. One could learn from such wrong actions, couple of months ago you could read from newspaper that Abuja development control decided to set things right. With all these so called developers building estate without paying all there government fees to government account, they decide to settle some individuals and cut comers to get there estate developed. At the end of the day, many of these estate we're pull down buy development control Billons of naira wasted, just buy not following simple rule of law. This could be a lesson to all of us that if we keep doing things wrong one day one government will come and put things straight and we could be the losers at the end of the day.

@Onigbinde01 in which of the Nigerian national newspaper was it advertised? or was it on the National television? With this kind of kangaroo way of recruitment that's why you will always keep getting unqualified people in most Nigerian institutions like "MY OGA AT THE TOP".

@Spyder no shakin I believe you can still meet your cost target with + 15%. With your brave foresight and understanding of your client in making good decisions in spending more now then creating bigger problems in future, you're an experience builder. Oga client weldone in you supportive row of making it a reality.
This man called Spyder is a man of integrating he will deliver. When one get quotation it's alway + or - 15% he is still on track.

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@brabus I hope that not big cat? Be careful

On the side line watching .

@Deman_man God bless you, for those of us that being around here for some year an far way from Nigeria, our thinking it deferent from those young men that just left school and joint this forum and start writing rubbish. Anyway can't blame then sha. Because many of them are still behind in many things they never see and will to know on till they have opportunity to come to west and see things for them self, or live here for sometime them they will now learn how to listen when people that live and have experience talking in public place like this forum. I for one, I don't know if many of these people even knew that there is a lab that test concrete stress to determine how long will it live. Just to say few !!!!!!

@Ihebrooke, sorry I did not see that. I will do that right now.

@ihebrooke, I'm still waiting for your response in regard to sizes of most of the rooms in this your instancing master styles designs, it's very important to people like me that are intreated in managing space to create green environment for healthy living.

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@eddiebruk, thanks for you analyzing your observation. I can tell you better from the west, you could being living the same house were you will being paying $1,300 a month rent when your next door neighbor could being paying $400 a month. Why because the system was back with strong law which in called equal housing. This is a federal law that base your income percentage as your monthly rent.
Why can't we do the same. Another example of how the west run their Government, most of highway where repair or re build with petrol tax you pay every time buy gas at gas station. Our government don't have to be spending this Billions on road every year,. We could cut all those OGas at the top salary in to half to repair our schools, also cut those Governs security vote 60 percent to be used for maintenance of our hospital etc, etc.

@all I have a simple solution to those ridiculous prices, if only we have the right government in place. What was my solution idea TAX THOSE houses to roof. What do I mean to the roof, make them pay tax per square feet of the sizes of the houses, my ideal of the amounts they should pay 10,000 naira per square feet, per the amount of money they steal. After that use the money to build mass housing for poor as we are all Nigerians, we deserved better living condition. Then enforce the law. I bet in no time those prices will come down like rain, after that we set up an appraising system to value houses at set amount value for it location problem solved.

@ALL can we please let the professor spyder do what he new how do best do his job. With you guys big big grammars, the guy as taking break in posting Valuable information for us to learn out of his experience. For you
guys that posting rubbish about your book reading experience please go and open your own thread buy your own land and practicalness your experience there, leave this brother alone. Most of you with all these much experience with your PhDs I bet many of you will never even have opportunity of get someone to trust you with 1 million Naira contract talk less of 8 million. Haters get a life for your self. No what go drive dangote truck with your PhDs and get paid 15,000 naira a month. Those jobs are still open for you guys.

@cavicent19 good job, may I ask what part of Kaduna is this. You don't have to tell exact location, it could be the town or city for your own privacy. just want to Know the new areas being opening up for development.

Na wa ooooo, the own of this project building road for the neighborhood. Naija to expensive for poor man to survive. I can see why people steal enough money when they get to Government office. Yesterday I was reading in vanguard about one ex Government official form pension office and his banker steal 5Billon from pension found, one man steal that much money. When the pensioners are dying on line in pension office in Abuja to get their record strait to collect their pension money that was not there, those OGAS AT THE TOP already collected. God save we Country from this people at the top ....

@Spygadget man you have long way to go. How do you acquired the land, what are the document they give you when you but the land. Don't you have a lawyer, if you do he should have explain all this to you before you paid for land. I don't believe it was a new law, it's just our people ignorance and disrespect for law. That why many house we're build with out C of O, part blame to our Government too, because if people apply for C of O after paying all the official fees and pushes envelop you know what I mean, it still takes up the 6 months at minimum to get it approve if you new the right people. This are the reason why people do things with no respect for laws, do many of them regret their actions later when Government opens it's books on them. I can't believe at the age of the information on this forum, you still not informed enough to put things right before you paid for your land. Not late, you could call lawyer he should be able to help you in this matter, but it won't be cheap oh.
Good luck .

@prince onx, where you go now. I hala you two weeks ago, I no say you dey busy buying everything in NY. You late for this class oh. I dey sha.