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Honestly PMB would show that he is a very slow person if he took 4 months to pick these names that we already knew about that wrecked havoc on Nigeria? Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso that finished Kano and the ministry of defence & Olagunsoye that finished Lagos and Osun again? And APC would be abusing PDP meanwhile they cannot do anything in Nigeria without ex PDP Harlots.

APC would never cease to amaze me. When its going well, its Buhari's Body language. When they mess up, they blame GEJ and if GEJ cannot be linked, they would find an ex SS/SE PDP woman to blame. I am happy APC's lies are beginning to manifest and its of their own doing. It was only Buhari that attended a Huge UN event without a Foreign Affairs minister and now they want to blame a highly respected ex foreign minister and UN Diplomat for their gaffes.

When GEJ was taking a huge team for UN conferences that comprised of Career diplomats, protocol officers and other people needed for the smooth visit of as Nigerian president, they abused him as a waster. How can Buhari walk down from his Hotel and there is no car to pick him and he decided to walk to the UN from his hotel? Na wetin? Later they would say he is living a Spartan lifestyle meanwhile he is disgracing 120million people. Even countries without Oil did not send their presidents to the UN to trek o!

How come no APC fan has opened their mouths to abuse and criticize Buhari for going with a lean football squad to a big Event. Even Chad's delegation out numbered Nigeria's own 3 to 1. I strongly believe Buhari's media team and online hardline radical conservative cashitivists would be his albatross at the end and would make PDP's job very easy in future elections. They are so used to denying everything even their wives and children and churning out silly propaganda at every given moment but Karma has caught up with them.

Nigeria is the only country out of 155 countries during the last UN summit that the UN expressed it's disappointment in. That summarizes this PMB/APC government * Drops Mic*

Could have been avoided only if the Buyers had contacted the Omonile Lawyer to conduct due diligence on the man and his band of merry scamming fraudster. I know all their tricks and he won't have gotten a dime if i was the one they were dealing with. Foolish Man.

If you want to know how to avoid this kind of issues when buying land in Lagos or Lekki, log on to www.omonilelawyer.com to get more info how to save yourself from being defrauded and saving your hard earned Millions.

Trial of Ex governors to begin soon, trial of looters to begin soon, trial of ex ministers to begin soon, trial of PDP to begin soon, trial of everybody to begin soon. Truthfully we are Fatigued from all the "begin soon" trial by media. Osibanjo as a SAN should help educate Buhari that trials are not fried rice and chicken. Even the accused are entitled to rights and to challenge the court process through injunctions, motions, appeals, adjournment etc which could take years before a conviction could be achieved. The noise APC spends on this Trial and a Probe issue is just a distraction from the substantive issues they promised Nigerians before the elections.

While we are in the season of Trials, hope Buhari hasn't forgotten that Audu Abubakar is on Trial for stealing Kogi's state N11billion and it's the same Audu that APC intends to present as it's candidate and the same Audu Buhari intends to raise his hand and campaign for. When is Buhari going to reinstate his commitment to sanitize Kogi state and corruption. Also Buhari should not forget the mismanagement of Lagos state funds by Fashola and how he plundered Lagos state into a 400billion debt planting flowers and designing 78million website. Is he not going to sanitize Lagos too with all the plethora of petitions filed against Fashola?

What is good for the goose is good for the gander. PMB should not make this probe thing selective and should stop making noise about probes and focus on the economy. It's already shameful that the UN feels disappointed in Nigeria for not attending a seminar organized for it and APC should stop deflecting its ineptitude with the crys of probe anytime people question it's competence.

When GEJ was carrying a large entourage to the UN to attend all seminars and Conferences that concerns Nigerians, APC Fans were busy mocking him and calling him wasteful and clueless but at the end the UN happily worked with Nigeria because we were a responsible member of the international community. Now due to APC propaganda, they praised Buhari for cutting down on the waste of sending a large delegate to the UN. They derided Jonathan and worshiped Buhari as our saviour for pruning down the number of people going to UN for conferences but now the chicken has come home to roost.

Due to Nigeria's small amount of UN delegates, they could not attend all the meetings planned for them and they had to prioritize until they missed the most important one that was peculiar to Nigeria and Internally displaced people. Its not everyday that the UN releases a statement that its Disappointed in a country especially since it spent its resources to organize a conference to benefit a country that has been crying out for help to deal with the Boko Haram menace.

Do you think the UN would worry about Nigeria next time it cry's out for help or bother itself to organize a conference to benefit Nigeria when it knows it won't attend? What is even more worrisome is APC's pride not accepting it has goofed and apologizing to everybody for this embarrassing International gaff but as usual APC uses Propaganda to solve its problems to deny and twist the story to favour them which has bounced back on its face. If it was the Jonathan Government that did this, APC fans would have called him clueless. What should PDP fans call this International embarrassment by PMB?

P:S Why is it anytime PMB travels abroad, his gaff or Omissions take centre stage instead of the substantive reason he traveled out? Either he is pissing off the Germans by calling them West Germans with President Mitchell or going to the US to mock the SS/SE and calling them the 5% or going to France to abuse his future ministers as "Noise Makers" and now embarrassing Nigeria by not attending a UN summit personally organized to benefit us and this is just 4 months into Buhari's Presidency. God save Nigeria Internationally in the next 3 and a half years. No matter what you say about PDP, it has always achieved an excellent result when it comes to Foreign Policy from Obj down to Gej and its best advised for APC/PMB to take lessons from PDP on how to comport its self internationally.

This is just plain sick and shows how deranged a particular section of the country is. Mob action for no just cause because APC leadership is angry Saraki beat them in their own game so they organize the media to try him to make gullible people who have no respect for the rule of law to threat him like a leper. What if the Code of Conduct Tribunal finds him not Guilty like Tinubu, would these morons pelting him with stones apologize and pelt themselves with stones?

Why is Saraki the only one they are after? What of Audu Abubakar that stole Kogi's 11Billion or Sylva who has a 2Billion case with EFCC that was withdrawn or Fashola who mismanaged Lagos funds such as building a 78million website or using 2.1Billion to build a 48room VIP chalet in Badagry? When would they be stoned or pelted too? When Tambuwal betrayed PDP to become the Speaker of the House, did PDP use the media, code of conduct or any other state sponsored gimmick to frustrate him out? This is very very very bad for our democracy where vengeance and violent opposition is the only way to settle political scores.

The Same APC that would defend an Audu and tell me whether he has been convicted for stealing Kogi's money or for me to provide evidence that Fashola defrauded Lagos is the same APC convicting Saraki in public and media without giving him the benefit of doubt or right to fair hearing to clear himself. This level of Hypocrisy of APC would lead this nation into anarchy and doom very soon if they continue at this pace.

Jokes aside. This country is sick. This is a former Minister of Finance, ex-Secretary to the Government and Former Presidential Candidate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a Yoruba Elder statesman that has been kidnapped. In civilized countries, the highest level of security alert would be raised to locate this Very Important personality within hours and try to forestall such from Happening again. But then again this is Nigeria where anything can happen. This is a very very sick country and i am surprised this is happening under a Buhari led APC Government that promised the highest level of security to all Nigerians.

Can this be traced to the withdrawal of police men from Nigerian VIPS or what? This is just as bad as the kidnapping of the Chibok Girls and its sad a whole Former Presidential candidate can be picked off the streets without a whimper of resistance. APC led Government must take responsibility for this and wake up to their responsibilities. Its over 5 months now and they cannot hide under the excuse of we are not prepared or handover security notes have not been properly briefed to Buhari. If GEJ was roundly criticized for the Chibok Girls kidnap, Buhari and APC must accept this one as their fault or are they going to blame GEJ for this one too? No VIP of Falae's stature has ever been kidnapped this easily in Nigeria and they should do everything possible to locate him ASAP unless this would further dent our poor security image.

A search would have taken care of all of this. I have done numerous searches in this area so i know this area is a committed and bad land. I know 2 people that have been affected with this demolition because of their stubbornness to conduct a search. One specifically told me because of all the houses in that area, the Government would not want to demolish them and Big people have built houses in that area. I told him not to mind what people have built and he does not know the wahala those people are facing privately that they won't tell him. He later bought the land due to the advise of the Agent and Baale who abused me thoroughly for trying to spoil business. Now a property worth more than N20Million is gone all because he didn't want to pay for a search that would have discovered this problem. Its just sad our people like the worst to happen until they realize they have no remedy.

I warn people not to play with Lands in Lagos or Ogun before they buy and some would say i am trying to create fear or panic. I hope those that falsely advise people not to conduct a proper due diligence can advise these people on what next to do. Its a sad situation but it could have been avoided especially the 2 that refused to pay for a search that could have saved them millions of Naira in demolition problems.

So What? Are they not Bayelsans and Free to support their own party man? I didn't see anybody berate El-Rufai for Raising the Hands of Prince Audu Abubakar as the Kogi Governorship candidate of APC after their Convention despite his ongoing N11Billion EFCC Case. We should stop being hypocrites and myopic when it comes to issues like this. You cannot continue to look one way and say everything PDP does is bad while APC Folks are good but they are doing the same thing you complain morning and night about.

El Rufai is daft and I have no apologizes for saying that. His excuse for demolishing them is that they are zoned for Hospitals and Schools. Can't he build the hospitals and Schools in other areas? Kaduna has a land mass 5 times the size of Lagos, so why can he focus his development there. If the lands were committed lands for bridges, dams, pipelines etc or hazardous things I would concur with his reasoning but schools and hospitals that could be established elsewhere is not a reason to demolish their houses. It's crazy and criminal and I advise the owners of these houses to sue the Kaduna state government if he ever attempts it. What's wrong with this man sef? In Lagos if such a thing happens and so many people build on Government land, the penalty is ratification and all parties are happy. Why can't he use the same format his fellow APC brothers in the South west are using. Did they know they were buying government land? Who would build a house in a restricted zone? The only thing he knows how to do is demolish and demolish. Short man devil

Pls web developers in the house this is a very simple question. How much would it cost to put a mobile apps for social media and a hand over clock? Besides have you seen the website? Is that website worth N12million? And finally to maintain and upgrade that website, would it cost N78million?

Please let's be objective here and stop playing favourism. Fraud has no name and has no party. If it would cost N78million to create and maintain that website, then nobody would be able to afford a website in Nigeria.

Also if it was a PDP minister or governor that spent N78million to do that site, in all honesty what would be your reaction?

This is Nigeria's money we are talking about and tax payers money spent recklessly with a rebuttal given with so much aloofness sprinkled with a smattering of GEJs " I don't give a damn what you think" mentality.

This favourism of APC good and PDP bad must stop. What is bad is bad and this is very bad and what is most upsetting to me is that APCfans fail to condemn this misappropriation because it's Fashola. If Buhari fails to look into how tax payers money has been spent recklessly, this whole probe business should just be seen as a huge joke and selective. When it comes to fraud there is no special pikin and the earlier Nigeria understands it the better.

I am really pissed off at his rebuttal and his lack of humility and empathy to this sensitive issue is border line arrogant and sickening.

Irritating Local Bush man disgracing the Good people of the South East. If I didn't know any better, one would think Obama Invited him personally to the White House. Why didn't he make a billboard of the one where he was caught napping at the White House. Even the fellow APC governors that escorted Buhari did not condescend this low to show how inferior his complex is.

All they had to do was appeal the obnoxious judgment if truly they bought the land from the right owners. Shikena!!!

I am a PDP man but I support anything that would reduce corruption to its barest minimum in Nigeria. Stealing our commonwealth has no place in Nigeria if we are to move forward and whether you are APC, PDP, SW, SS, from the North, we must support our security and financial agencies to succeed. How some people would sit down in one office in Abuja and swindle Nigerians especially Pensioners Billions of Naira is sad to say the least. If PDP covered a blind eye while all these thefts were going on does not augur well for the party and if it takes APC to expose our failings as it regards the strengthening of the Efcc, I would support it so that PDP would be fully reformed in future.

I don't know why people read these nonsense stories and believe all these lies. This story was obviously written by an APC supporter to draw news away from their failings in the NASS. What source did the OP derive this balderdash from that he cannot name it. Why would Akpabio a one time senator become a minority leader? The house rules are straight forward and nobody's ambition can thwart it. Secondly why would GEJ and Patience fight over NASS minority leadership when the PDP NEC has zoned it properly and they are all in agreement. Also was the OP at the so called meeting with Ekweremadu and Wike who disagreed over the choice of the minority leader? Besides since it's inception has PDP ever had issues with selecting its inhouse NASS leaders?....mscheew. Like Olisa Methuh once said APC shouldn't blame PDP for its crass inexperience in selecting its house leaders. If you are looking for a story where PDP would be roundly criticized produce good stories backed with facts.

Nonsense. This is a sponsored post by an OPC or Niger Delta Militant sympathizer who has benefited immensely from the Billions of Naira given to them by the GEJ administration. Your contract has been revoked and you can do nothing about it. The Nigerian Armed forces will now have to play its role in securing these pipelines properly. Lest you forget OP, the Military is now going to be heavily funded to deal with issues like this and with Buhari's interest in the Petroleum sector its no longer going to be business as usual for individuals who think they can milk the country dry due to their selfish interest.

P:S I am from the Niger Delta and not an APC Supporter but in the best interest of Nigeria, we have to move forward and i support this move by the President to cancel the contracts and secure it well with the armed forces.

What is wrong in what they wore? The bride looks very Gorgeous and most women would dream of looking this good on her wedding day and how do you expect a man that is over 40 or 50 to dress on his wedding day? Like Wizzy baby? Mscheeew .....Too many kids on NL these days. Abeg OP go to church this morning and receive sense from your pastor.

I remember this news conference. This was in 2011 when he lost the presidential election and called a press conference to lament about the rigging and how youth corpers in the North were used to carry out the rigging. He made a lot of unsavory remarks that day though

I remember this news conference. This was in 2011 when he lost the presidential election and called a press conference to lament about the rigging and how youth corpers in the North were used to carry out the rigging. He made a lot of unsavory remarks that day though about corpers

People confuse buying fuel for N150 per liter during a 3 week fuel strike or crisis because the product is scarce and paying for fuel at N150 every day per liter for years. Can you afford it? How much is your salary or income? How many low and middle income people can pay N1500 per day for 10 liters for their cars and another 10 liters for their generators. Can you times that in 7 days and an additional 30 days and you don't want Nigerians to be corrupt or do illegal things to sustain their lives. A country that produces fuel should at least benefit some thing no matter how small from this God given gift. The government should not punish citizens for its inefficiencies and any plan to withdraw subsidy would be met with stiff opposition from the masses and Buhari should not even try it. No amount of propaganda or arm twisting would make us cow to the government to punish us. Have you thought of the pepper seller or meat seller or shoemaker struggling to buy fuel now and with the withdrawal of the subsidy how would he be able to pay N150 per litre daily. Is Buhari going to subsidy the corn seller too?

Do you know how this fuel scarcity with fuel selling above N150 has affected other sectors of the society? Do you know how people are struggling to make ends meet or sleeping in perennial darkness because because they can't afford to pay for this N150 per liter? Have you thought of the thousands of people in Osun who cannot make ends meet because they haven't been paid for over 5 months to now still pay for N150 per liter tomorrow. Does the government want to wipe out the low class completely and incapacitate the middle class?

I don't buy this idea of wiping out the subsidy because it's making a few people overnight billionaires. How can you compare the joy of a few thousands to the sufferings of over 160million people? When there is fuel and it's sold at a reasonable price that is affordable do you think the masses care who is making a killing financially or not? With the affordable price, people can go about their business happily and make the small profit they are comfortable with to feed and support their families. If the government is against it or looking for money to subsidize fuel, they should look inwards and cut down on their foreign trips, estacodes, dollar allowances, numbers of P.As or government agencies / ghost workers that are stifling our economy everyday with no end result. Bottom line Buhari shouldn't try it because Occupy Nigeria part 2 would be more intense and electrifying.

bodeface:
Guys, to add to all being said, becareful with deed of Lease instead of deed of Assignment, they knows what they are doing deed of lease, you never buy land.

Your very correct @bodeface. A deed of lease instead of a deed of assignment would never give you the right to own the land in perpetuity. So many buyers make this mistake

What is a 3 bedroom flat duplex? mscheew. The people concocting these stories should always get their facts right before spewing nonsense. It's not everybody that is gullible on NL.

The Oba of Lagos needs a very good P.R team to sieve the kind of things he says in public and launder his image. As an Oba it's his job to unite people and not create a wedge especially when the tensions are still very high following the outcome of this election. Every King, Emir, Olu, Obi or Oba in Nigeria had their own preferred candidates but it's their job to counsel all parties to work together for the benefit of the state and not further drive in the knife to ridicule the parties that lost. It would create more bad blood and flame the embers of mistrust amongst all the other ethnic tribes. The election has been won and lost, candidates have congratulated each other, why is he still gloating over it? Very bad sportsmanship and unbecoming of a royal father

The Oba of Lagos needs a very good P.R team to sieve the kind of things he says in public and launder his image. As an Oba it's his job to unite people and not create a wedge especially when the tensions are still very high following the outcome of this election. Every King, Emir, Olu, Obi or Oba in Nigeria had their own preferred candidates but it's their job to counsel all parties to work together for the benefit of the state and not further drive in the knife to ridicule the parties that lost. It would create more bad blood and flame the embers of mistrust amongst all the other ethnic tribes. The election has been won and lost, candidates have congratulated each other, why is he still gloating over it?

Cripple no de beg another cripple to carry am cross road

@op You think by getting ridiculed every time Linda Ikeji posts you on her site would bring you instant fame and cheap celebrity status but you are doing more harm to yourself than good. The world is now a small global village and when you intend to engage in something serious tomorrow like getting a good job in a blue chip company or venture into politics or high stakes business don't you think your competitors, partners or employees would take offence to all these childish things your doing now to destroy your reputation? Do you think anybody would like to associate with an embarrassment in their work place or a social media LovePeddler for business? See as NLanders are insulting you as gay or skinny and your enjoying every moment of your 15minutes of fame and forgetting the future 15 years that could ruin you. Stop all this stupid pics you post of yourself lest you make everyone to have one unsavory comment of you that could spill into your family or friends for no just cause.

Just my 2 cents. By the way you look very dirty and unflattering

Ok, let me start by saying you did well to take the time to put this together. As an executive assistance/marketer with a reputable property company, I can put it to you that you are probably not in this business.

Sorry to bust your bubble sir. I have been doing this for more than 10 years so i know the industry inside out.

My basis for that assumption is that you should know that most of the documents you mentioned above are strictly confidential.

No document is confidential as it regards sale of land. The basic documents that must be shown to any propspective buyer is the reciept you used to purchase the land that shows you validly own the property to sell, the deed of assignment conveying title to the company selling the land and the Survey plan describing the Land the company bought. Anything less shown to a prospective buyer is fraudulent and deceptive to any prospective buyer.

I don't know how these mushroom's property companies operates. But where i work, you wouldn't bother to ask for such and such when you see what we have on ground.

What ever you have on the ground does not equate with the paper work you need to show me that validates ownership of the property you intend to sell to another. You can build 17 bedroom flats on it and design it with Gold for all i care but i am only interested in your title documents because its the title documents that would determine whether i am buying from the right source or not and if i am violating any Government rule in case i buy your lands.

It is hilarious to think of showing these documents to every body that works into my office to make inquiries.

That's a very sad statement to make. Why are you hoarding the documents that would determine a prospective buyers choice whether he should buy it or not? And whats so funny to you that you cant show these documents to everyone who shows interest to buy your lands? How do you determine who is serious and who is not? Is it after they have paid that you would show them the documents? What if your papers are not complete and you tell me its under processing, do you think a prospective buyer would take it lightly or trust you?

I have not even seen some of them myself

Then your not adequately qualified to market your company's product more especially if someone like me is contracted to investigate your properties and i meet you. What if i don't meet your legal secretary or M.D? How would you adequately answer all my legal questions concerning ownership and title if you yourself have not seen some of them? Bro you just lost a customer with your last answer.

There are several other ways of knowing the status of a property before purchasing it.

Such as? There is no other way apart from you showing me the documents your company possesses that gives you the authority to sell.

And I think you should be overly concerned with some of these documents when you dealing with individuals and not organisations.

That's not true. Companies owe a greater degree of responsibility to Buyers than Individuals because if the company defaults, the buyer has very little recourse to recover his money due to the rules of Bankruptcy, Company Liquidation and payment of damages. Dealing with an individual provides more stability because you know who is selling directly coupled with the immediate risk.

You expect Dantata & Sawoe or Cahaah Nig Ltd (where I work) to show you their survey plans and Government consent because of one three-bedroom you may end up not purchasing. hahahaha

Yes i do and i would advise people not to patronize your company until you are ready to open up your books and show them your documents conferring title and ownership to you that you intend to transfer to me. A defective title would not cure any problems i might have concerning that land in future and its best for every buyer to investigate it before purchase.

Finally its your right to show a future buyer all documents irrespective of whether they are buying now or not. Thats what is known as due diligence and that person who isn't interested in buying now, may recommend someone else to you tomorrow. Don't be too cocky to underestimate people.

If you meet the right Igbo girl, you would do more to please her. My wife is from Imo and i would happily do it all over again x2 because she makes me happy and does not give me grief. Majority of the complainers here either have no money, have met the wrong Igbo girls that have jilted them or cheated on them. There are so many good Igbo girls out there, take your time to meet the right one and you wont regret it. Not all of them are Runs girls or Asawos that would put money first before anything. I was very lucky to meet mine and i almost gave up until God directed her to me. There is nothing prayers can't do if you truely desire Igbo women and their lifestyle.

Too many daft people on NL. This picture was taken when he was the Minster of Education and that was his office until he resigned to pursue his governorship ambition. Why would he have a picture of himself and the President in the same office addressing Government Officials when he is still a Governor Elect? Seun should begin a process of weeding out these Oponu Odes on NL who would just sensationalize any topic to give them the opportunity to abuse their perceived enemies for no reason. SMH

There are so many Real Estate companies in Nigeria more especially in Popular cities in Nigeria offering Nigerians the opportunity to own homes through installment payment to help an average Nigerian balance his budget monthly and still have that desire to own their own lands or homes. While i appreciate their efforts to promote this laudable idea of providing affordable housing, i am also appalled with the level of scams, lack of information and deceitfulness that most of these real estate developers practice to hood wink people into paying huge monthly monetary installments without performing their own part of the bargain when the chips are down. Every day i get one phone call, email or the other asking me to verify these lands offered up for sale by these companies and whenever i venture out to engage a surgical due diligence on them, i am shocked at their responses and what they intend to offer to .

Most Nigerians just fall for their beautiful marketing strategies to buy these lands without questioning the source of their title and what they are to get in return. You hear marketers on behalf of these estates promoting the benefits of a new estate that is close to a proposed international airport or free trade zone and that the futuristic estate would have good roads, hospitals, schools, boreholes etc that would generally make you believe that you might be purchasing a future Lekki phase One with just a minimum of N25,000 monthly for 2 to 3 years but what they fail to tell you how it can be realised and the likely authentic documents they possess to make it materialize and feasible.

With this in mind, i am calling out all the real estate developers in Nigeria to change their ways and be accountable to the buyer/subscriber. We are in a season of change and we shouldn’t wait for politicians to change when the real transgressions are right in front of us. Every existing installment payment Land or property buyer with a real estate company or potential future subscriber whether in Lagos or Ogun, Portharcourt or Abuja should ask the Real Estate Companies these series of questions before you pay the next dime to them. They owe you this much since they are collecting your funds:

1. Every Subscriber must ask the Real estate Company to show you proof how they obtained the authority to market these lands to you. They must show you how they purchased it, what documents were given to them as proof, who sold it to them, how many acres or hectares of land they bought, How they derived title to sell to you and which ones are can be confirmed at the land registry of your state.

Most of these Real estate companies are fond of pushing beautiful marketers in your face to tell you all the attractive things about this estate but when you grill them with some of the questions i highlighted above, they begin to squeeze their faces like my towel as if you are offending their intelligence. They would then refer you to the legal secretary or the M.D of the company and unsavory stories would begin to emanate in a very hostile way. What is so hard in sighting physically the documents the real estate company is claiming to be its source of authority to sell to you? Would you buy a car from a car sales man and not inspect the proof of ownership before you buy it? Sometimes you would hear very odd excuse such as “We are not allowed to show anybody these documents so that fraudulent people won't reproduce it"…What a load of Codswallop!!! That shouldn’t be the subscribers business. If they want your money, you should show you their proof of title and those who sold it to them so that you can investigate it.

The hazard of not asking this important question is that you might be buying a plot of land that has existing family land wahala, court cases, lands under acquisition that could be revoked anytime or buying a land that belongs to another group of people and you would be liable for any potential judgment against the real estate company to pay millions of Naira to the true owner in future. Don’t let the stubbornness of the Estate marketer prevent you from doing the needful. If they fail to furnish you with these information’s, please either you cancel your subscription with them if you are an existing subscriber or you don’t do business with them if you are a new potential buyer.

2. Every Subscriber must know and demand in advance the Contract of Sale the real estate developer intends to give you: A general misconception with most of these Real estate developers is that it is when you finishing paying their installment fees, you would be given the contract of sale between you and their company. This is very wrong in principle. Why should a contract of sale be one sided without the subscriber knowing what he has paid for and the contents of what he or she might be signing in advance. This job has been designated to the beautiful marketers to elucidate the Contract of Sale for you in very beautiful terms and to assure you there is no problem after you pay but i have seen so many hidden and dangerous clauses inserted in the Contract of Sale that would not favor any potential subscriber once they know about the contents.

They restrict you from so many things that you should normally get for free if you were buying a private land, charge you very high hidden service charges for so many mundane things, Bill you for this future development and that development levies, restrict you from owning this or doing that, force you into using their staffs, workers and allied partners before you can do anything, deduct monthly or yearly fees so odd things and so on. It’s crazy when you sit down to read these contract of sale and after you have paid and realize your mistake, you feel much cheated but you can’t do anything about it because you have signed your future away legally.

A classic example of this problem can be seen in the refund clause of these contracts of sale. Since no real estate company wants you to stop payment, they refuse to explain to you or allow you read the penalties for stopping payment. A popular real estate company in Lagos that has its adverts splashed everywhere has one of these hidden refund clauses that would make you go bonkers and run away from them once you default in payment. They charge over 10% of the amount already paid and you would receive that money 3-6 months after depending on the availability of funds in their coffers. So it’s even possible for you to wait for more than 2 years before you even receive your money back depending on the availability of funds and you can’t do anything about it because you refused to scrutinize a copy of their contract of sale before you began to make payment. To make matters worse, if they encounter any problem, judgment, liquidation issues, raising of new capital issues etc your money and imaginary land is gone and its all legal because you refused to ask for the Contract of Sale to negotiate it according to your own terms.

3. Final Documents, Ownership and Possession: The ultimate scam most of these real estate developers pull can be traced to this part. After payment has been made, you are entitled to get a letter of allocation, deed of assignment, survey plan and your receipt. You also entitled to know exactly where your plot of land is located on the layout and for you to take immediate possession but i know there are Millions of you out there that can testify that you have been very serious victims of this foul play by some dubious real estate developers. They would give you a thousand and one stories why you cannot be allocated your land immediately, they would give you stories why the agreed price that should be paid for your legal documents has changed and why you should pay a higher fee, they would give you stories why your survey plan would take more than One month for it to be ready when an average survey plan shouldn’t take less than a week. They would give you stories why your deed of assignment is taking forever to be ready and most importantly, you would know you have a land on paper but in real life you can neither locate the land nor take possession of that land.

The way out of this is to make sure that you do a personal site visit before you attempt to give them a dime of your money. You should know the personal plot and block number they intend to sell to you and it must be documented in the Contract of sale and to hold them liable if they renegade or attempt to change it. You should get a real estate lawyer from the moment you intend to start paying to peruse a sample Contract of Sale or Deed of Assignment and the lawyer should be the one disturbing them every day for these documents so that they know you are protected legally and they won't see you as one of the naive Ones that they can deceive. You must pressurize them for the survey plan and the moment you make full payment, you must obtain your receipt immediately.

With respect to taking possession, you must slug it out with them. Maximum 2weeks after payment you must be shown your land and you must take possession. Anything beyond 2 weeks without any concrete and reasonable explanation that makes sense must lead to a show of force and to cause maximum problem with them because they have your money tied down with nothing to show. Do not give them any breathing space and don’t be friendly with them. It’s a business to collect your money and it’s your business to obtain your land. They are not your family members, partners or friends and you shouldn’t treat them as one. Most of the problems i have seen emanating from Real estate developers and subscribers could be traced to the friendly way these transactions were consummated at the beginning. In exchange for the smiling and humble face, you’re first in line to be treated badly when the chips are down. Those they perceive that would ferment Boko Haram Wahala with them would be treated with dignity and attended to first.


These are some of the Changes we expect this new democratic dispensation from Real Estate Developers towards their Subscribers. It’s time to stop these sharp practice of getting rich quick with other people’s funds and savings. Most of you have no idea what these People go through when they spend years to pay these installment fees with their last garri Naira and adhere to it strictly so that they can become landlords only for these Real estate companies to erect stumbling blocks along the way or dash their hopes by not allocating them these lands or furnishing them with good title. Its wickedness and it should stop. As much as you want to make profit you should bear in mind the blood and sweat of these Buyers praying day and night for your companies to fulfill your own part of the agreement. The more you tell buyers the truth and open up your documents, the more they trust you, would do business with you and take that risk if any knowing that you have their best interest at heart.

Please Change or we expose you and flush you out the system and you would still pay damages for your misrepresentations.


If you have any experience with any bad or dubious real estate company that is playing games with people's money or depriving them of their landed properties please expose them here. Most of them are heavily represented on Nairaland and if calling them out for the whole world to see would make them change so be it. For the more complex ones I would take my time to investigate them and bring them to book. This nonsense must stop. We can't continue like this and blame politicians for all our woes when we are duping innocent Nigerians left right and centre.

She used to be in PDP now she is in APC. Honestly what really has changed? Politicians jumping from one party to the other and they call it change. She stole in pdp now she is stealing in Apc and she would fight her way back to pdp again because Apc has rejected her. What really are we voting for?