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lawyer:
The Lawyer goofed. The position of the law as regards Quit Notice is very simple. There must be clear 6 months given to the errant tenant the landlord wants to evict before it can be tendered to be valid. If the tenancy period of the tenant is to expire in August, the Quit notice must be given in February so that the Quit notice starts running from March. The lawyer issued the Quit Notice on March 8th so the Quit Notice starts running from April 1st and Terminates in September. It's irrelevant that the Tenant's tenure in the property expires on August 8th. The law is that he must be informed 6 months in advance from the date the Quit notice was issued. The OP can challenge the Quit Notice in Court as being defective and a new Quit Notice must be given to him properly or as the Court decides but as it is, it is a very defective Quit Notice that cannot be tendered in court.

eagleeye2:
Do not try this method. If it backfire you will be spending some time in jail.
First if you want to quit your tenant, go to your lawyer pay and the lawyer will file the Notice to Quit and register it in the court. A bailiff will be the one that will issue the Notice to quit to your tenant. You have no basis handing the tenant to quit.
After six months, since she is a yearly tenant, go back to your lawyer to issue 7 days owners intention to Recover property. After the expiration of 7 days the lawyer will now file papers in court.
The process may take long before you recover your property, but bear it in mind that for any extra day the tenant stays on your property she will be liable to pay mesne profit. So don't fear that she will live there rent free. No. The court will help you recover your money if you are willing to follow the due process which might seem long.
As for those thinking that they can live rent free in another man's house pray that you don't jam a man who is determined enough to make you pay.

DaBogu:
Author Leezah

LAWYER
Get a lawyer.. Please don't take laws into your hands, because the law tilts more in favour of tenants. get a lawyer to Give him quit notice if his a yearly tenant If the tenant is on yearly payment, it is 6 months notice that u'll give him and it will start counting frm d day you served him d notice irrespective of how many months he has not paid.

Once the quit notice has been filed validly for 6 months, any day over that 6 months notice means the tenant is holding over that property illegally and he no longer becomes a tenant but a tenant at sufferance and from there onward you dont need to issue him a quit notice again but an OWNERS INTENTION TO RECOVER PREMISES in 7 DAYS And from there onwards the tenant practically has no defence legally when the matter will be filed at the rent tribunal nearest to you.

Tops with all the adjournment within 3 to 5 months the court balliffs will personally come to serve them to eject them of the premises compulsorily.

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DO IT YOURSELF (DIY)
If you don't want to contact a lawyer.
Let me give you a summary of what you should do .Serve him the statutory notices ie 7 days and one month,then file a suit for recovery of premises at the nearest magistrate court.

Once the case comes up tell the court you are handling the case yourself,enter witness box and tell the court what the man did and the order you are seeking from them.The bailiff will then enter the box and tell the court that he served the man but he didn't come .The court will then grant you the order you are seeking.You will take the judgement copy and go to the bailiff and pay them for policemen.

The policemen and the bailiffs will go to the man's house one early morning, break his house and pack all his properties to the court premises. I hope you learnt something today from this. Goodluck

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GOVERNMENT
If you based in Lagos If its Lagos, go through the human right activist section or Mediation center of the State Government. They have many outlets in each local government in the state. They'll charge a fee of #8,000 and would handled the cases

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STREETS
I don't encourage this any longer but its inevitable where a tenant things you must suffer after the initial suffer to build a house. Go to court, pay the clerk and officials and get a notice, paste on his door in his absent and snap then take notice off. Make some other person appear in court in his stead as a proxy tenant he transferred tenant ship to without your consent and get a verdict and evict him immediately as the unpreparedness will rock his life for ever. He can continue the fight from outside your house. The person that appeared is the person you have been seeing around the house and you don't know him. Simply put, he alone can provide that person.