Tag: land
Lawyers, developer face trial over alleged land fraud in Lagos
Two lawyers, Ademola Owolabi and Adebayo Akeju, along with a property developer, Alex Ochonogor, have been taken to court over…
Ruga settlements: Fulani want to take over our lands, Fani-Kayode cries out
Former Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode has raised an alarm over plot by the Fulani to take over lands…
Businessman urges Appeal Court to restrain Lagos Gov from trespassing on his land
Akin Kuponiyi In a bid to stop alleged illegal construction by the Lagos State Government on his land after judgement…
Insecurity: Zamfara Govt. to number lands, houses
The Zamfara Government says it will introduce numbering of lands and houses in the state as part of measures to…
Namibian president wants land expropriated to boost black ownership
Namibia’s president called on Monday for a change to the constitution to allow the government to expropriate land and re-distribute…
Apapa gridlock: Lagos Govt acquires expansive land for trailer park
Lagos State Government has acquired a large land at Ojo for construction of a trailer park to tackle gridlock in…
Kwara State pays out N1.5m in land compensation
Kwara Harmony Holdings on Tuesday paid N1.5m out of the N3.7m million as compensation to owners of 25 hectares of…
Resettlement: State donates cash, land to 307 IDPs
The Yobe Government on Wednesday distributed plots of land, building materials and N9.2 million to 307 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)…
Ooni donates N2m, acres of land for construction home for the aged
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has donated N2 million and acres of land for construction of elderly people’s…
FG should provide land for dry season -Farmer
Chief Silvanus Ejezie, Chairman, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Delta chapter, has called on the State Government to provide…
Cash-strapped Zimbabwe offers workers land instead of bonuses
Zimbabwe authorities offered residential land to government employees in lieu of annual bonuses, unions said on Thursday, rejecting a proposal…
Trader remanded over N400,000 land fraud
A 35 year-old trader, Ebunoluwa Akinya, who allegedly defrauded a man of N400,000 on the pretext of selling land to…
Historian dupes girlfriend of car, land
A 47-year-old historian, Nicholas Ajayi, who allegedly defrauded his girlfriend of a car and landed property valued at N1.3 million,…
Lagos gives land encroachers one month to vacate
Eromosele Ebhomele The chairman, House Committee on Health Services of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Olusegun Olulade, has handed…
Bad weather forces British Airways London flight to land in Nigeria
Femi Ipaye/Abuja A British Airways flight from London to South Africa was forced to land in Nigeria early Tuesday morning…
Doctor loses N12m land to brother
Cyriacus Izuekwe In what seems to be a great betrayal, a medical practitioner, Dr Iyk Maduba has allegedly been swindled…
Agbaje promises to return all illegally acquired lands in Lagos
The Lagos state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Jimi Agbaje, on Friday promised to return illegally…
Police arraign 5 brothers over N91.5m fraud
The police on Wednesday arraigned five brothers in an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with N91.5 million land fraud.…
Birthday Present: Family Battles Obasanjo Over Land
In what appears to be a bad birthday present to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a family in Badagry whose land the…
13 Arrested Over Land
Officials of the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit stormed New Oko-Oba area of Lagos State,…
Land Dispute Tears Ikorodu Community Apart
The existing peace in a community located in Ikorodu is seriously threatened over ownership of the vast land writes EROMOSELE…
Ojukwu: Biafra And The ‘Abandoned Properties’ Question (2) —Charles Ugwuanyi
What a law! What a sin! Who were the members of this committee and who actually got title to those…