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If you are shopping for the highest luxury property in Lagos, you will hear the same four names again and again: Ikoyi, Banana Island, Eko Atlantic and Victoria Island. They are close enough on a map that you could drive between all four in an afternoon, traffic permitting. Yet they feel remarkably different to live…

Ask a Lagos property lawyer about the disputes they handle, and most will tell you the same thing: the problems almost always trace back to documents. A missing Governor’s Consent, a forged certificate, a survey plan that doesn’t match the land. In each case, a buyer paid first and checked later. The good news is…

Buying property in Lagos from abroad comes with one fear that almost every Nigerian in the diaspora shares. Most people know at least one story: someone sent money home to a relative or a “trusted” contact to buy land or a house. Years later, there is no house, the money is gone, and the relationship…