₦airaland Forum

Any one who thinks d urhobo interest would be best protected in biafra is only being economical with d truth. The so called love existing between d igbos and d urhobos only exist in nairaland. I doubt if d op has ever lived in urhobo land.

We hope and pray for a united Nigeria, but if Nigeria divides today, d Urhobos would definitely not be part of biafra. Let us dnt deceive ourselves, how many urhobos resides in eastern Nigeria? How many urhobos own big shops in Aba and in Onitsha? The Igbos are not accommodating, this is a bitter fact. Go to universities in south east and u would see dat d urhobos peeps schooling there are only giving admission because they presented a fake letter of identification from local govt in delta north. Urhobo landlords are in most cases scared to rent out their houses to igbos in warri because of dia bitter experiences in time past. When d dice is cast, d urhobos, itsekiris and binis would definitely be joining their yoruba brothers.

Take it from me, the so called love between igbos and d urhobos only exist in nairaland. It is love wrapped in deceit and falsehood. Urhobos would never be part of biafra.

carzola:
A condom would have solved this ... buh your dads poverty wouldnt let him buy one

Ur silly father must be turning in his grave now, but dat serves him right. The fool wouldn't listen, he takes pleasure in having fun wit ashewo. The beast in his miserable life to come, would adopt d pull and pray method when patronising ashawo in a brothel.

carzola:
see Amaechi using his two hands to greet a man he stole money to run his campaign and put him in office, shouldn it be buhari using two hands to thanks him.... f00l at 40, ....... the entire south south laffs at the coward
















useless pigs you cant take two steps in Aso rock without seeing a northerner... with their aboki perfume...

Wise and sensible beings from south south laughs at ur foolishness. Hopeless beast.

Ur hatred for Buhari would make u die a bitter goat soon. Next time don't rope d entire south south in ur voyage of self destruction. Jonathan presidency was strictly for his ijaws brothers and his cronies from d south east. The urhobos, itsekiris, ndokwas, efiks, binis have absolutely nothing to show from Jonathan misrule.

U are irredeemably daft and incurably mad.

Goodboiyy:
My point here is that I think the Okpe Dialect is the hardest in Urhobo , Followed by Uvwie , my experience thou.
Men @ bolded lolz, Abeg marry Urhobo Girl so she go speak Urhobo to ur Children,nor worry I can teach u, Maybe on a voice note and send to u, well am ain't full Urhobo, but I speak and hear fluently #Singleparents tins BT I nor know itskeri atall

What part of urhobo is ur mum from? Is she uvwie? Most people from the "core urhobo" speaking part of delta, finds it difficult to understand d okpe dialect. But experience uvwie speakers understands okpe. I do understand okpe because of my solid uvwie speaking background, though I can't speak okpe.

Funnily, d okpe and uvwie people understands urhobo, but they may find it hard to speak d urhobo language except those who have mixed up wit d urhobos or stayed in a urhobo speaking area like ughelli, abraka etc

But d udu/ujenwe dialect of urhobo is tough, even people who can speak d urhobo finds it extremely hard to understand udu.

Heard of d incident yesterday and even saw those pix on facebook pages, I literarily wept. Quite a sorrowful scene.

Freemanan:
Sediso will be glad...
WHERE is your location?

U said u are half Uvwie, and u nor even fear to address the Ovie with his name Sediso so casually (Sideso properly put). Lol

Ovie of Uvwie may ur reign be long! HRM Emmanuel Sideso. Abbe 1, JP, OON
May ur reign continue to make Uvwie d heart of Delta.

scholes0:
Are you from Uvwie as well?

My paternal grand mother is from Uvwie (Ekpan). I m from Udu.

scholes0:
Alright....
Say a big hello to the Ovwie of Uvwie ....
tell him the sons of Oduduwa send their regards.

The OVIE of Uvwie. Thanks for ur good wish.

Hope d Agbor monach is not bleaching his skin? Learnt his people are not comfortable with his decision to marry a white woman.

sweatlana:
Receive knowledge in Jesus name.

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADMINISTRATION OF OATH OF OFFICE AND THE SUBSTANTIVE JURISDICTION OF THE NIC!

How dumb are you apc slaves??

Tell ur paymaster to go appeal d judgement instead of casting aspersion on d judiciary. When court pronouncements pleases ur likes, den d judiciary is d last hope of d common man. But if d reverse is d case, u all turn to over night analyst, denigrading d court.

How low can u saTANists go?

sweatlana:
Yenagoa court lacks jurisdiction!

Yenogoa court lacks jurisdiction, but d Bayelsa state chief judge has jurisdiction to swear in Wike as Governor of Rivers State. Receive sense in Jesus name.

pazienza:
You are a fool. You plan to reap where you didn't sow, may Amadioha strike you down.

The entire Igbo race were made to bear the blunt of an Anioma Man misguided mission, non of you non Igbo deltan leeches would be fast to claim Nzeogwu 1966 coup as a Deltan coup, you push it over to Ndiigbo, but now something good comes out of Anioma, and like leeches you want to attach to it by force, and push out the rest of the Igbo nation? Onye Oshi!

Go and die. Keshi and Oliseh remains Igbo until the day Nzeogwu coup be changed to "Deltan coup" , and not before then.

If ur silly father had been weary of sleeping with prostitutes, Nigeria would have been spared d agony of having to put up with bigots like up. Ur retard of a father must have learnt his lesson, next time d fool would adopt d "pull and pray" method when having fun with a woman of low virtue.

Bye from me.

pazienza:
Mr man, better be proud of your ethnic group. There is no ethnic group by the name Deltan.

Until Nzeogwu coup be re written as "Deltan coup" and not Igbo coup in the annals of Nigerian history, Oliseh, Keshi and all from Anioma remain Igbo. They were once westerners, then they became mid westerners , then Bendelites, and now Deltans,tomorrow that can become anything else, but they remain, Igbo first and foremost.

Keep your evil opinion to your pathetic self and get off my mention. Ur likes deserve to be shot and forgotten.

Please take her to Specialist / University teaching hospital where consultants and experienced medical personnel can attend to her. U may not get d needed help in most general hospitals.

Sunday Oliseh, a Deltan. He is taken over from Stephen Keshi a Deltan. Besides, NFF is presided over by Amaju Pinnick a Deltan.

Delta State winning all national sports festival from time immemorial. Delta State feeding Nigeria with sporting talents and administrators, comedians and entertainers since 1890BC.

Proudly a Deltan. Godwin!

lawyer:
@saharo

Sorry i havent been able to get back to you. It was due to events beyond my control. Now that i have been offically been confirmed by brownbonno as the lawyer to nairalanders, lol, I have to advise you and others on what to do. My fee is $2billion with oceanic bank interest of 23%, lol, Just kidding!

Now to the issue at hand:

I have read your complaint against your tenant and i would tell you authoritatively, it wont take more than 3 months at most and minimum 1 month to ejecct him out. I dont know what state your in now but the tenant/landlord legal relationship is covered by the Recovery of Premises Act/Law of the state or The Recovery of Residential Premises Law of the state of the question.

The aim of these laws to to prevent the unlawful ejection of tenants or the illegal holding over by tenants(As in your own case) and the arbitrarily increase in rents.

Now for you to use this procedure to eject the tenant, these rules must be followed extremely strictly and just one mis-step or mistake in this procedure would make the whole ejection process a waste of time ,so if you intend to use the law to eject him, follow these rules to the teeth:

1. I dont know the kind of tenancy existing between you and the tenant but there are 3 major types of tenancy that is common in Nigeria namely:

a. Weekly Tenancy

b. Monthly Tenancy

c. Yearly Tenancy

A weekly tenant is to pay his rent weekly and after he fails to pay for the forth coming week, he is liable to be ejected.

A monthly tenant is to pay his rent monthly and after he fails to pay for the forth coming month, he is liable to be ejected.

A yearly tenant is to pay his rent yearly and after he fails to pay for the forth coming year, he is liable to be ejected.

Now the information or quit notice to be given to the tenant should follow this rule:

1. E.g if your tenant rents a place on the 1st day of january 2007 on a sunday, his rent should expire on saturday the 7th day of January 2007. If your to give him a quit notice, it must be one full calendar week that must show before you eject him.

E.g let's assume you already have a problem with him on the 3rd of January 2007, you cannot give him a quit notice on thursday the 5th of january 2007 and expect him to give up the premises on saturday the 7th day of 2007. That quit notice you gave him on the 5th of january 2007 will start running from the 8th of January 2007 and he must give up possession on saturday the 14th day of january 2007.

The law states there must be one full clear week so that the person has the opportunity to look for other arrangements.

The same rule also applies to a monthly tenant and he must be given one full clear calendar month before you eject him.

E.G he rents the place on the 1st of January 2007, his rent will expire on the31st of january 2007. If you now want to eject him and you give him a quit notice on the 17th of january 2007 so as to make him quit on the 31st of january 2007, that quit notice would hold no water; instead that quit notice would serve as a valid quit notice for the tenant to vacate your house on the 28th or 29th day of february 2007. If you mistakenly issue him the quit notice on the 1st day on february 2007 so as to eject him on the 29th of february, the law would hold it against you. Instead, the law will calculate the quit notice from the 1st day of march 2007 and the tenant is expected to quit the premises on the 1st day of April 2007.

This is what is called COMPUTATION OF TIME IN LEGAL LANGUAGE and it was decided in the famous court case of GB Olivant V Oyekoya. The courts are very very strict in interpreting quit notices so you must be very careful.

Now in cases of Yearly Tenancy. There must be 6 clear months of quit notice before you eject a tenant. If you make that mistake of not complying with that rule, walahi, that tenant will just be enjoying in that house and you will just grow grey hairs because of that simple fatal error.

E.g You lease a property to a tenant on the 1st of January 2007 for a year, the rent should naturally expire on the 31st of December 2007 and he has the right to renew the tenancy agreement. If you dont want any form of renewal from that tenant, the latest time he should be given a quit notice should be June 30th 2007 so that the clear 6 months of july, august, september, october, november and december would show clearly.

If you mistakenly give him the quit notice on July 1st, the clear 6 months quit notice will start from August, september, october, november, December and January 2008. So instead of him leaving your house jejely on the 31st of December 2007, with your own hands, you have extended his tenancy for an extra one month free of charge.

So imagine if you now gave him the quit notice on November 24th 2007 You do the maths and knock your self on the head for failing this simple test.

The law is extremely strict with this and no matter how angry or aggrieved you might be, this rule must be followed. Most tenants actually use this medium to stay longer than necessary in a house because if the landlord fails to get a lawyer to manage his property and falls for this trap, these kind of problems will occur and the landlord is TOTALLY HELPLESS.

THE PROCEDURE:

Now that you know how quit notices are computed in law, these are the procedures to follow. A fatal mistake here will lead to a waste of time of the whole process:

1. There must be a letter of instruction from you the landlord to the lawyer authorizing him to recover the premises from the tenant. If you dont write this letter of authorization or instruction to the lawyer to authorize him to eject the tenant, you have missed the very first step and a very eagle eyed lawyer like me, will spot this mistake and when you go to court to ask the court to eject that tenant, all i need to do as a defence is to alert the court that there is no letter of authorization granting the lawyer the right to carry it out. Automatically, the case will be thrown out and you have to start the process all over again.

(The best way to avoid all these problems from the beginning is to engage a lawyer to manage the affairs of the house. By managing the affairs of the house, you will need to sign a power of attorney so that the lawyer is the one that issues the quit notices at the right time, probably collect the outstanding rents on your behalf when due and issue letters of warning and legal sanctions to erring tenants. With this power of attorney for one year at a time, you dont need to have any form of personal or business relationship with the tenants. All the rents, quit notices and anything that has to do with the house is the lawyer's problem. You the Landlord only need to briefed by the lawyer alone and check your bank account. No tenant has a right to see you concerning incrememt of rent or quit notice or nepa bill hasnt been paid. All correspondence to the lawyer and the lawyer corresponds to you the landlord)

2. After the letter of instruction has been drafted and granted by the landlord to the lawyer, the lawyer can now issue the Quit notice legally.

The purpose of the quit notice is to end the landlord and tenant relationship formally. A quit notice must contain all these facts unless it is a defective quit notice:

a. The name of the person giving the notice

b. The name and Address of the landlord

c. The nature of the premises i.e whether it is a room, flat, duplex or warehouse (If you fail to a specify what the tenant rented, the quit notice is defective)

d. The location of the premises: address of the place

e. The nature of the tenancy; whether it is monthly, weekly or yearly

f. The commencement of the tenancy i.e when the rent or tenancy started i.e 1st january 2007

g. The termination of the tenancy or the day the tenancy ended i.e 31st december

h. That the tenant should quit and deliever up possession of the premises

i. Dated and signed


The quit notice must be served personally to the tenant unless it becomes a major defect in the process. If it cant be served to the tenant personally, the lawyer should go to court to obtain a court order that grants the landlord the right to serve the tenant through a process called substituted service. This substituted service means the quit notice can be placed anywhere within the conspicious parts and premises of property and if the tenant likes, he can claim he didn not see it, that wont avail him in court. It will be deemd that he has been properly served

The above is what is called the statutory notice to quit and it must be followed strictly unless, i can't shout anymore o!

(Please try and engage a lawyer or alert one in time or in advance unless you would be giving both the lawyer and your self mega headache. the law won't bend for you at all o!)



NOTICE OF OWNER'S INTENTION TO RECOVER PREMISES: Part2

This part is very important so please read carefully:

If you have followed the required legal procedure of instructing the lawyer to carry out the ejection through a letter and the lawyer has issued the quit notice in a legal way following the rules of the recovery of premises procedure; whether it is a weekly, monthly or yearly tenancy, then you would know that in most situations, the quit notice does not usually make the tenant leave the premises. It is during the quit notice period that the tenant will start giving silly excuses to elongate his stay on the premises such as what the poster has said and begging you to give him time.

The next thing to do is for the lawyer to issue to the tenant on behalf of the landlord a new notice. This new notice is called OWNERS'S INTENTION TO RECOVER PREMISES. This notice is served to the tenant immediately the quit notice expires. The landlord is no longer called the landlord because the quit notice has effectively cancelled the existing relationship between the landlord and tenant. The landlord is now called the OWNER.

This notice gives the tenant 7CLEAR DAYS to QUIT AND DELIEVER UP POSSESSION. If the tenant still refuses to leave the premises after this 7 clear days owners intention to recover premises, then the lawyer can now apply to the court to issue the tenant a Writ of summons against that tenant who is holding over the premises illegally.

The Owner's intention to recover premises must contain the following:

a. The name of the person giving notice

b. The name and address of the landlord

c.Date that the notice to quit expired

d.Request that tenant should give up possession within 7 days

e.Date on which the writ of summons will be issued

f. Dated and signed.

This notice must be delievered and served on the tenant PERSONALLY unless it wont stand in court. The away around this is that if the tenant is trying to dodge or prevent you from giving or the tenancy doesnt want to recieve the notice, the lawyer applies to court to get an order that the notice should be served to him in a substituted manner. A substituted manner includes, placing the notice on any where conspicious within the premises where he can see if and if he chooses to pretend he did not see it, then that is his problem. The order of the court granting the substituted service and the owners intention to recover premises notice are both placed together in a conspicious place.

If you dont get that order from the court, you are not entitled to place it in a conspicious place. Failure to serve the proper notice renders the whole court action or ejection illegal.


OPTIONS OPEN TO THE LANDLORD/OWNER DURING THE COURT EJECTION PROCESS:

1. The landlord can recover his premises in court immediately if he follows the rule diligently because the tenant would have no defence and immediately the order to eject the tenant would be granted and court sherriffs or policemen would come and help you throw out the tenant sharp sharp with the backing of the law.

2. You can also sue the tenant for Arrears of the rent. Arrears for the rent includes money owed by the tenant during the tenancy. E.g The land lord rented the place to a tenant for 1 year and the tenant payed only for 8 months and promised to pay the balance before the tenancy expired, the landlord can sue the tenant for the arrears of the rent being owed by the tenant.

3 Also the Landlord can sue the tenant in another way to get his money. This process is called MENSE PROFIT. This Mense profit is money calculated due from the tenant for illegally holding over possession after the tenancy has been terminated. E.G The tenancy expired on the 31st of December 2007 and he was or is still in that property till the 4th of july 2008. The mense profit is the amount of rent due to the landlord between january 1st to july 31. It will be calculated in a manner as if the landlord as rented the property to anew tenant and it will be computed based on the open market value of the property. i.e including interest.

From the above complaint, it is a very very easy case. In fact too easy to handle and this is the kind of cases lawyers prefer, no wahala in ejecting the tenant because he has over spent his time on that property.

1. The time of the tenancy has expired, so technically, he is not supposed to be there. In law, he is known as a Tenant-in-sufferance or a Tenant-at-will. This means he is just staying there by your grace and if you kick him out tomorrow, no yawa. In fact you dont have to give him a 6 months notice but a simple 1 week notice will suffice since he has been there for over a year without paying rent. He is a weekly tenant at most in this situation.

2. You can also sue him for both arrears of rent and mense profit.

3. After you chop all that money from him, abeg remember me o! Na me leak the expo for you o!, lol

Cheers mate!

Wow! Interesting, expository, informative and educative. Many thanks Barrister.
Please I would need ur kind opinion on an issue. A tenant of mine whose rent expired on May 31st, paid a six month rent into my account Monday dis week without my permission, infact, he didn't tell me. On receiving d alert, I called him as to why he made half payment into my account, he claimed I told him to pay half yearly at d expiration of his initial one year rent. This is a big lie. He is a yearly tenant and it is so stated in the tenancy agreement. Every other tenant in dat compound, pay yearly.
I intend returning his money to him by sunday when I would be chanced. I need d full year rent, I need d money for my small business. The said guy moved into d apartment last year, and his rent ran from June 1 to May 31 this year.
Kindly guide me sir. God bless!

gabbytabby:
l just assume that you have one cos you need to decide what you do if someone owes you rent for me
1) call everyday in the first 3 weeks.
2) Write/paste a weekly default notice after 21 days
3) Issue/paste a 7 day notice of eviction due to none payment of rent after 3 months. Etc.

In this case he paid part rent and is already 6 weeks in so l would taper the timescales differently.

Goodluck.

When you have someone managing your property like I do they need a guide as to your expectations.

Thanks for d kind suggestion.

gabbytabby:
Do not return the 6 months payment but request that he pay the balance within a specific time period and if he does not you just carry out your rent default escalation as normal.

Thanks for ur advice. But what do u mean by rent default escalation? Pls throw a little light. Thank u.

younglawya:
Have you returned the money? What is the status?

I would be returning it by Sunday, I won't be chanced to do it during d week. Thank u.

doublewisdom:
What? For my own domain? Wey my Alaka boys?

Who u help? Alaka boys get liver? Lol.

Heard d gist on radio delta's saturday programme (make country better) and I really felt pity for d small girl. Let d law take its course.

I have been using dudu osun consistently non stop since 2002. But I m now getting fed up wit it, it no longer has fragrance and its no longer giving my skin dat glowing torch. Now disappointed wit it. Immediately I exhaust d ones I m having now, I m porting to Idole papaya. The soap is relatively new in d market, but its wow. I used one two months ago, and I fell in love wit it, it uproots all marks from my skin.

Do you have placement for a Mass Communication graduate within Warri and environs at the moment? Thanks!

I don't know how d civil service operate anyway. But a situation where a mass communication graduate is d perm secretary in d ministry of finance baffles me. Qualified tecnocrats heading a wrong ministry. This should be reviewed for crying out loud.

lastpage:
With due respects sir!
The "Rights" being waved by the said agreement, is also a coded Law of the state or am l wrong about that?
If the law says it is an offense to kill, (just like it says it is an offense to eject a tenant without adequate six months notice), just same way as any "agreement to invalidate that law" or render it inapplicable, does not infer that that law is inapplicable!
A coded law wil always be applicable and there are sanctions for flouting it..... in both cases.
You cant waive-away the law, even if it is your right.
What l am saying is that the infringement is against the sate laws per say, as in both cases.
Consumer Rights law also protects "consumers" who are in a weak position such that they are not able to bargain for their right and the law wil protect their interest in such cases as this.
I guess we will have t leave it for "argument" before a Judge!
Cheers.
Lastpage!

younglawya:
I agree that a Tenancy is an agreement or contract for use of premises for one year.
A quit notice is not a term in a contract. It can never be. It is a unilateral right that a landlord has over his property.
Remember that a six month notice does not affect a tenants occupation and lawful use of the premises during the duration of his occupation of the landlords house. It operates as a means of ending an existing tenancy. As such it can be legally given as long as the period stipulated does not fall within the existing tenancy that has been properly paid for.
For more information or clarification hit me up on 07037836881

Please I need advice from expert in d house. A tenant of mine whose rent expired May dis year, suprinsingly paid a six month rent into my account this morning, without given me a prior notice, he doesn't have my permission to make dat payment.
On calling him dis afternoon as to why he made half payment into my account, he is arguing dat I told him that he would be paying six months rent after d expiration of his initial one year rent. This is a big lie. He is a yearly tenant and it is clearly stated in d tenancy agreement. I have decided to return his money by sunday. I need d full year rent. Every other tenant in dat compound, pay yearly. This guy is smart and want to play a fast one on me. He moved into d house on june 1st last year and his rent expired on d 31st of may dis year. I need d full year rent for my small business, d six months payment is a total no to me.
Pls advice me. Thank u.

oviecardealer:
With the fear of God am doing my business already however,estimate a budget of 550,000k for a Golf 3 manual.

Hope it would be perfectly clean? Would dat amount land it to Lagos wit custom papers? It should be four doors. Thank u.

Chief Ovie do your business with d fear God and God in his time would elevate u. Do not defraud anybody, it is sinful to do so. Go and make d Urhobos proud and God would make u Ovie in all u do.

How much would land me a grade A golf 3? 1.6L or 1.8L, manual, perfect AC. It should be clean, infact buy and use.

Thank you.

charliejose:
@ op.... Only if u have misplaced the meaning of beauty, u would place OAU's library ahead of convenant's ND babcock's

Check d numbering again, he did.

Why are you Green Snakes Yoruba Decepticons complaining? SS is Biafra land. Soon we shall separate and you will stop stealing our oil. Why are you slimy snakes so scared?

U must be very silly to include SS in ur Biafra. U tink south southerners are fools right? Make my urhobo people hear u include dem in ur Biafra, thief. Ewu.

barcanista:
OP you took your time to single ONLY Agencies that were/are headed by Southerners and left the ones by Northerners. For instance, you refused to mention that of the 4 IGPs under GEJ 3 were Northerners, only 1 is a southerner. Another instance is the Chief of Defense staff was/is a Northerner. The NSA is a Northerner. All CJN under GEJ were Northerners. CJ Federal high Court is a Northerner. EFCC Head is a Northerner. The INEC Chairman appointed by Jonathan a Northerner. C-G Customs is a Northerner.NECO, NERÐC, FRCN DGs are Northerners appointed by Jonathan...The list is lengthy because Nigeria has almost (if not more than) a thousand Agencies and Departments.

I was reading ur epistile wit keen interest, until when I saw u mention GEJ appointed a northerner as CJN of Nigeria and as CJ of federal high court. U truly do not know how CJN and CJ are appointed and sadly, u would carry this falsehood to ur street locals and eventually, plant in dem hatred for a united Nigeria.

U accept a small position, people would bash u. U do not accept, people would still bash u. Let them say.

Senator Emmanuel Agwariawodo of Delta State has been condenmed by many Deltans for accepting to serve as a senior special adviser to Gov Okowa. Senator Emmanuel is a former member of house of reps, a former MD of NDDC, a 2007 governorship aspirant under PDP and the immediate past Senator who represented Delta Central. People believes his recent appointment is retrogression.

I so much like golf 3. But people keep telling me to stay clear of it, if its going to be my first ride, dey keep recommending toyota. Just confused.

If d clueless ijaw drunk had won d election, Ameachi by now would have being arraigned for fictitious 150 count charge of corruption, his freedom taken away from him while d likes of Stealer Odua gallivant in d NASS. But God pass dem. Even without appointment, Ameachi would remain a happy man. Tanoids, u can cry me a river.