Nigeria: Community, Council, Others in Dispute Over 87-Yr Old Land Lease

24 April 2018

Justice A. A. Babawale of an Ogun State High Court has fixed June 7, 2018, to hear a suit bordering on a dispute over 87-year-old land lease which has pitched Efure community against Shagamu Local Government and the Wesleyan Methodist Trust Limited.

The Efure community, Offin in Sagamu has dragged Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Trust Association Limited and eleven others to court over 53 acres of land on Akarigbo Road, Shagamu, asking for an order to take possession as the owner of land.

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