Who Actually Owns Land In Nigeria?
This
happened a while back. I think I was in Primary five at the time. My
dad told me of how we used to own the property behind our house;
demarcated by a fence. I remember wondering how exactly a person can own
something and then not own it anymore. I asked if he had sold it to
someone else. This was the only logical reason I could come up with. He
said he hadn’t but that the property was just taken from us. This got me
thinking about how exactly property is owned in Nigeria. Precisely,
what do you have to do to fully own property (land as it is popularly
known) in Nigeria? In fact, can you fully own property in Nigeria? When
there are issues pertaining to ownership of property in Nigeria, how are
they resolved? What steps do you take?
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