LAWGIVER NIGERIA

Tenancy proceedings covers more than 70% of magistrate Court matters every day but still most landlords, their agents/ Attorney continuously loss their cases in court notwithstanding that the tenant is in possession of their properties and never showed up throughout the entire proceedings. Regrettably these matters do last for more than 2years. Thus I will here pursue and proffer solutions which will aid the landlord to desist from these costly mistakes in sequel to the topic. Statutory Notices are to a tenancy proceedings the blood of the matter. It is very fundamental and once there is something wrong with these notices, the whole proceedings is bond to fail no matter how good the evidence were. See Pan Asian African Co. Ltd v. National Insurance Corp. (Nig) Ltd (1982) All NLR 229. These notices includes, the quit notice with its various durations (statutory notices are well detailed in my previous post on tenancy in Nigeria) and the 7 days Owners Intention to recover possession.

Recovery of premises in Nigeria; Drafts and procedure . Majority of Nigerian are prone to change their environment one time during their life time thus creating the avenue for a tenancy relationship and also because of the incessant rise in the population of the country and the increasing development in the real estate sector and the need to provide accommodation for the rising population, it is necessary for there to be a regulation of the relationship between these landlords and tenants in order to avoid abuse of such relationships which may be in the form of ; a.      arbitrary increments in rents, b.       wrongful eviction and c.        Illegal holding over of premises.   The procedure for recovering premises is largely governed and regulated by statutes. Each state in Nigeria now has its own law for Recovery of premises in Nigeria and any act arising from these relationships is heavily regulated by the different laws in the various states of the Federation. Among

LAWGIVER NIGERIA: HOW TO APPLY FOR BAIL AT THE POLICE ESPECIALLY AT ... :     Bail is one of the means being adopted to comply with the fundamental principle of human rights which says an accused should never ...

    Bail is one of the means being adopted to comply with the fundamental principle of human rights which says an accused should never be deprived of his liberty until the charge against him must have been proved beyond all reasonable doubts. It must be stated that it may be very easy to get your client on bail at the police station but it takes only a skillful and smart lawyer to save a client in SARS custody. The main objective of a lawyer at all material times must be the peace of mind and the life of his client. If you can secure that for your client then he can pay you any amount of money you demand from him. Speaking of peace of mind and life of a client, I will focus on the issue of SARS police as the play in the court is a different ball game. Remember that not all suspects that goes into their custody that make it alive, even going to court is not a better option when dealing with them. This is base on the fact that the laws establishing their jurisdiction and the SARS