Land you can prove is yours.
In Nigeria, land is often bought twice: once from the seller, and again from the claim nobody checked for. We do the searching, the perfecting, and the defending, so ownership holds.
Most land is not lost in court. It is lost at the desk, in the search nobody ran.
Family land sold three times over. A Certificate of Occupancy that never survives a registry search. Consent that was never perfected. A survey quietly overlapping the neighbour’s beacon.
Every one of those is findable before you pay, and nearly all of them are cheap to find compared to what they cost later. That is the whole argument for this firm.
About the firm →Title verification
Root of title, registry searches, survey and beacon checks, encumbrances and live litigation. The work that happens before your money moves.
Conveyancing and perfection
Deeds drafted, Governor’s Consent obtained, instruments stamped and registered. A signed deed is not yet a title.
Land documentation
Certificates of Occupancy, excision and gazette, ratification, and the conversion of family land into title that will register.
Developer advisory
Acquisition structuring, joint ventures, subscriber allocation frameworks, and estate-wide perfection programmes.
We do not take the survey plan’s word for it. We stand on the beacon.
Each stage closes clean before the next one opens.
Nothing here is optional and nothing runs in parallel. If a stage will not close, that is information, and we bring it to you rather than working around it.
Search
Root of title and a registry search establish who genuinely owns the land, and what is already recorded against it.
Survey
Beacons and boundaries are checked on the ground against the survey plan. Paper agrees with earth, or we stop.
Draft
The deed and supporting instruments are drawn to protect your interest, with nothing left ambiguous.
Consent
Governor’s Consent is obtained and the instrument stamped. This is the step most buyers skip.
Register
Registration at the Lands Registry. Your interest becomes a matter of public record, and the file closes.
The counsel who quotes your file is the counsel who works it.
We keep the bench deliberately small and take fewer matters than a general firm, so a partner reads every file personally.
Meet the counsel →Dr. (Barr.) Surv. Damilola Oladokun
Dual-qualified as a registered surveyor and a barrister, and leads every matter the firm takes on.
What you are actually retaining.
A partner on every matter
No handoff to a queue, and no learning your file twice.
Search before you pay
Root of title, beacons and encumbrances confirmed before consideration changes hands.
Perfection, not paperwork
Unregistered instruments and missing consent cause most title failures. We close both.
Eyes on the ground
Buying from abroad, you get physical verification, dated photographs and a written report.
They found an overlap the seller swore did not exist. One search saved the whole investment.
Send us the land. We will tell you the truth about it.
Bring an address, a survey plan, or nothing but the seller’s promise. We will tell you what it is really worth checking.