Note to the Nairalaw Network – December 7, 2022

Over the next few months, we will be educating our users on how to prevent and deal with legal issues before they arise. This education will take the form of short courses – but short courses that are truly short and are easily understandable and accessible.

We know a lot of people hate the idea of learning and for some people, the only thing was that learning is learning about something as boring as law. Trust me I know how boring learning about law can be, I have done my fair share of legal education (some people might say, maybe more than my fair share! )

So, to make sure you find this learning engaging, we will do it the nairalaw way – you will get bite sized information over a 7-10 day period – when we say bite sized, we mean it. Each day’s lesson will probably take you 3-4 mins to read, and we will not use any legal jargon. Just explaining the law in simple and plain English language.

In doing what we do, we have a bird’s eye view of the legal issues that everyday Nigerians face, and one of the most recurring issues is tenancy issues – every month we get hundreds of emails and calls from people who have questions and problems surrounding the houses they have rented. The issues range from threatened eviction by landlords, unbelievable increase in rents, harassment by neighbours, and many other issues. In fact just as I was typing this email, a request came in requesting legal assistance for “issues with my landlord, including failure to provide water supply and unacceptable living conditions.”

So, because we know tenancy issues are such a big problem, our first course will be a series on tenancy rights. We will be preventing  tenancy issues  by educating you about everything you need to know about renting in Nigeria – your rights, the issues, and pitfalls.

The intention is to drop as many courses as we can in a way that doesn’t overwhelm you guys – giving you enough time to digest, understand and apply the learnings in your daily lives, before we move on to another drop.

We know there are a number of areas that people need help – tenancy, employment, debt and finances, even Japa plans (we are working hard on that one).

So, we do have a lot in store, however we will also take feedback from how many people are signing up and finding it helpful. If we don’t see a large enough take up, then we might need to go back to the drawing board.

Our first course in the tenancy rights series will be launching on January 9, 2023. However, to participate you need to sign up and register early. Registration is now open. Sign up by clicking here – Register for Tenancy Rights Series.

We will have only limited spaces available for this course, and so once we hit 200 registrations, we will close it.

So go and register now.

Yes or No, it depends on you.

We know that a number of people come to us because they have no other place to turn – no money to hire lawyers etc., and so we want to make it as accessible as possible. However, we also recognise that as a business we can’t keep making everything free – or else we will soon be out of business. So, we have come up with a sustainable way to offer the courses.

We will give you the opportunity to decide whether it is free or you pay for it. Each course will have sponsors and advertisers, and so if you want the free course you have to agree to receive adverts or carry out a specific sponsor task to access the course.

If you don’t want any adverts/tasks  then you can pay for the course without adverts. When you register you will get the opportunity to decide which one you want – Free or Paid.

Here’s a sneak peek of the syllabus for the first in the Tenancy right series:

Other courses that are part of the series and will be released in the future include – Negotiating a Tenancy Agreement; Living as a Tenant; and Ending a Tenancy.

Hope you do sign up for one or all the courses that we drop over the next several months. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us!

Thank you

this is a special form of ownership by two or more persons of the same property.

The individuals, who are called joint tenants, share equal ownership of the property and have the equal, undivided right to keep or dispose of the property.

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