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Browsing: Property Scams & Estate Security
Stories about property fraud, estate security failures, landlord disputes, buyer protection, and the risks facing Lagos homeowners and investors.
The caretaker at the block on Adewale Kolawole Crescent had a new phone when I visited in March. I noticed…
A woman I know, a teacher who rents in one of the older blocks behind Abraham Adesanya, called me the…
The petition was handwritten. I saw it on the desk of someone I know at the Lagos State Real Estate…
The first thing Mama Biodun told me was that she had liked him. That was the part that stayed with me. Not the money, not the humiliation of it, not even t
The first time I heard about the fifth break-in, I was sitting inside a half-completed building on the Lekki-Epe corridor, talking to a caretaker named Bio
The message that started everything was from a woman in Manchester. She had typed it in capital letters, which in a WhatsApp group means either celebration
The gate was still open when I arrived. Not wide open — just that particular kind of not-fully-closed that tells you something happened recently and nobody
The Landlord’s Number Was Already Switched Off Before She Finished Unpacking Chisom called me on a Tuesday, and I could tell from the first three seconds t
The plot was empty when I went to see it. Just red laterite soil, the kind that stains your trouser hems permanently, a single concrete pillar someone had
Biodun called me at twenty past eleven on a Tuesday night. I could hear the generator in the background, that low diesel groan that you stop noticing after
