Category: Property Documents and Titles
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Building Plan Approval in Nigeria: How to Get One Without Stress
You have bought the land. The title is clean, the survey is charted, the deed is registered and the plot is fenced. Now you want to build. At…
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Buying Family Land in Nigeria: Deed of Partition and Community Consent
If you are buying land anywhere outside the planned parts of Nigeria’s big cities, there is a strong chance you are buying family land. Not government land, not…
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Receipt, Contract of Sale and Power of Attorney: Which Paper Does What?
One of the quietest reasons Nigerians lose money on land is that they collect the wrong paper and believe it is the right one. Somebody pays five million…
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Land Registry Search in Nigeria: How to Verify a Title Before You Pay
Every experienced property lawyer in Nigeria has the same story, told with slightly different names. A client arrives, distressed, having paid for land. Something has gone wrong. A…
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Excision and Gazette Explained: How Village Land Becomes Safe to Buy
There is a category of Nigerian land buyer who does everything right and still loses. They inspect the plot. They meet the family. They collect a signed agreement,…
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Survey Plan Explained: How to Read One and Why It Matters
If you could only take one document with you when investigating a piece of land in Nigeria, it should be the survey plan. Not the receipt, not the…
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Deed of Assignment Explained: The Paper That Moves Land From Seller to Buyer
Most Nigerians who have bought land can name the Certificate of Occupancy. Far fewer can explain the deed of assignment, and yet in the great majority of ordinary…
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Governor’s Consent Explained: Why You Need It When You Buy Land
Here is a situation that plays out every week in Nigeria. A buyer finds a plot. The seller produces a genuine Certificate of Occupancy. A lawyer draws up…
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What Is a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) and How Does It Work in Nigeria?
Ask any Nigerian what they want when buying land and you will hear the same three letters: C of O. It has become a kind of magic phrase,…