Most Nigerian trust deeds are drafted around the founder’s lifetime. The ones that actually protect a family survive two generations of trustees the founder will never meet.
By the time a family business dispute reaches a lawyer, it is usually too late to write the rules that would have prevented it. A family constitution writes them early.
Founders will build a decade-long growth plan for the business and no plan at all for the day they are no longer the one running it.
When a living trust solves a problem a will cannot, where Nigerian trust law genuinely supports it, and the founder-stage decisions that determine whether a structure ever works.