3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
PROPERTY, REAL ESTATE AND LAND CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN – 4
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO PROPERTY, REAL ESTATE AND LAND CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
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Women and Real Estate – Ownership of interest in property – Protection of same – Relevant considerations |
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NATIONAL BANK OF NIGERIA AND ANOR V. LADY AYODELE ALAKIJA AND ANOR. |
Women and Real Estate – Rights over inherited property – Women and Justice Administration – Origination of suits and effects on timely resolution of cases |
| NEZIANYA V OKAGBUE |
A woman’s right over land under Onitsha customary law – Right of wife who left husband when he took another wife – Wife without male child – Right of children of the marriage |
| Women and Real Estate/Property – Feud over communally held farmland – Women as silent victims – Relevant considerations | |
| OBASI V. EBENUGWU |
Real Estate – Defence of property rights – Role of wife in asserting or defending claim of spouse over property – Relevant considerations |
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Women and Justice administration – Women and real estate – Favourable judgment received at customary court relating to title over property – Whether same can be overturned via an appellate proceedings which processes were not served on woman as plaintiff/respondent/party – Duty of court to set same aside |
| ODEWARA V. THE STATE |
Women and Justice administration – Women in business – Women and real estate – Woman found on the farmland reaping and cooking palm fruits on disputed land – Whether not evidence of entry but evidence of remaining on land – Propriety of charging her of entering a land which is in actual and peaceable possession of another, in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace or reasonable apprehension of breach of the peace under section 74 of the Western Nigeria Criminal Code Law – How treated |
| Property ownership – Trespass to land | |
| OGUGUA UKWA & ORS . V. AWKA LOCAL COUNCIL & ORS. |
Community land granted for use in developing community market by local council – Abandonment and dispute over use of same – Silent stakeholders – Unlawful use of community lands – Interests of women and families and effect thereon |
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OGUNDIPE V. THE MINISTER OF FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY
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Women in Employment – Bidding for ownership of interests in real estate – Public servants and access to publicly sponsored home ownership schemes – Right to exercise first refusal in respect of present accommodation – Accrued rights as a result of monetization policy – Relevant considerations |
| OGUNFAOLU V. ADEGBITE |
Women and Real estate – Defence of interest in property – Women and Justice Administration – Onus of proof considerations in relation to proof of title to land |
| Women in public service/employment – Housing and home ownership – Acquisition of interests in property – Participation government divestiture of interest in properties – Relevant considerations | |
| OGUNSANYA V. TAIWO |
Women and Real Estate/Land Interests – Conveyance relating to family land – Proper way of drafting same as to reflect involvement of Family Head in his position as such – Implication for justice administration |
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Women and Real Estate/Land – Defence of interest in property against adverse claims– Priority of rival titles – Need to ascertain root of title – Relevant considerations |
| OKAFOR V.A.G. ANAMBRA STATE |
Community land used for homestead and farming – Expropriation of same by government without compensation – Implications for women and family life – Whether allocating portion of land to third party for establishment of a gas processing plant amounts to public interest |
| Women and Real Estate/Land – Defence of title to land – Women and Justice Administration – Validity of gift of land made to female foster children | |
| OLUBEKO V. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA |
Real Estate- Ownership of interest in real estate by a woman – Instruments of ownership – Certificate of ownership – Security and recovery of same |
| Widow – Women and interests in Property – Customary law challenges – Right of a widow over interests in land/property enjoyed by her deceased husband – Customary law which disentitles widows with female children only from inheritance to land and properties – Attitude of court thereto – Relevant considerations | |
| OSHAFUNMI V ADEPOJU AND ANOR |
Women – Right over interest in property – valid transfer of ownership in property – essential ingredient for a valid sale of property |
| Women and Real Estate/Land – Declaration of title to land – Women and Justice Administration – Likelihood of bias – Meaning and legal effect | |
| OWONYIN V OMOTOSHO |
Customary law – Title to land – Role of women in securing traditional history and survival of their clan |
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Women and Land/Real Estate – Defence of interest in Land/Real estate – Women and Justice Administration – Proceedings before Registrars of Title |
| OYEGBESAN V. OYEGBESAN |
Divorce and real estate rights – Divorced mother with 3 children still resident on property judicially declared as belonging to ex-husband – When continuing residency with children amounts to tenancy at will – Court treatment of ex-husband’s attempt to eject and repossess |
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P. D. HALLMARK CONTRACTORS NIGERIA LIMITED & ANOR v. GLORIA KANROTMWA GOMWALK |
Real Estate – Women – Defence/assertion of interest in land – How treated |
| PRINCEWILL EYO ASUQUO & ORS. v. MRS. GRACE GODFREY EYO & ANOR |
Women and real estate/property – Widow – Security of residential accommodation and customary law practices – Protection of interest in property enjoyed by deceased spouse – Relevant considerations |
| Real Estate/land – Protection of legal interest therein – Unlawful deployment of thugs to interfere with a woman from cultivating land and or erecting her building on it – How treated | |
| SOLOMON OJO OLUWOLE V. MODUPE MARGARET |
Protection of interest in property – Joint ownership in immovable and movable properties – Relevant considerations |
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Women and Housing/Real Estate – Women and Justice Administration – Damage to property through negligence of employee of a public institution – Action to recover damages – Proper way to proceed – Relevant considerations |
| UDENSI V. MOGBO |
Women and Justice administration – Protection of the inheritance rights of female heirs of a deceased person who died with male heir – Invocation of equitable and trust principles – Women and Customary Law – Practices precluding female heirs from inheriting the estate of their fathers – Attitude of courts thereto – Women and Real Estate/Land – Legal and equitable reliefs available to the vigilant |
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Women and Real Estate – Women and Justice Administration – Defence of interest in property – Post Civil War statutes affecting property – Duty of court to interpret unique Nigerian statutes without undue reliance on English statutes |
| WILLIAMS AND GLYN’S BANK LTD V BOLAND AND ANOTHER (HL) |
Matrimonial property – Husband and wife’s joint purchase of matrimonial home – Conveyance in husband’s sole name – Husband mortgaging home without wife’s knowledge – Possession sought by mortgagee – Whether mortgagee have priority over wife’s equitable interest – Whether wife in ‘actual occupation’ – Whether wife having an ‘overriding interest’ |
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Women and Real Estate/Land – Silent victims of protracted disputes over communal lands used for farming, fishing and harvesting of economic trees on it – Effect of eventual judgment one way or the other |
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