Warrant of possession: turning judgment into vacant property.
A possession judgment is not the end of a recovery case — it is the start of the enforcement phase, which has its own procedural traps.
Property & real estate
Recovery of premises in Abuja: the steps landlords get wrong.
Statutory notices, possession orders, and the small handful of pre-litigation moves that decide whether recovery takes three months or two years.
The statutory notice: still the most expensive thing landlords get wrong.
A recovery-of-premises action filed on a defective statutory notice does not just slow the case — in most Nigerian courts, it fails outright and starts the clock over.
Mesne profits: claiming occupation value alongside possession.
Landlords who recover possession without also claiming mesne profits leave money on the table for every month the tenant occupied the premises without paying rent.