Things To Do When Your House Rent Increases In Nigeria

Getting a notice of house rent increment from your landlord is obviously one of the worst ways to start a day. As a matter of fact, you will be so frustrating that you tend to transfer aggression on anybody. God save madam if she dares ask of money that day.

Sadly, this is the reality people are facing in Nigeria today. As you read this article, someone just got a house rent increment notice. The most painful part of this is the fact that most people don’t have a clue about what to do when they receive this notice.

Therefore, in this article, you will learn the 3 things to do when landlord increases your house rent.

Things To Do When Landlord Increases Your House Rent

#1. Tell The Landlord To Give You Time To Think About It


One of the things to do when landlord increases your house rent is to request for time to think

71 people killed, 124 wounded in Nigeria bus station blasts - police

Bomb experts search for evidences in front of buses at a bomb blast scene at Nyanyan in Abuja April 14, 2014. (Reuters / Afolabi Sotunde)

Seventy-one people have been killed and a further 124 injured in two blasts that tore through a bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, police officials said.
The explosions took place as several hundred commuters were boarding buses to Abuja. Police spokesman Frank Mba told AP that 16 luxury coaches and 24 minibuses were destroyed.
Police say they believe that secondary explosions were triggered by the first one.
"There was only believed to be one blast with secondary explosions as vehicle fuel tanks ignited and burned," Mba said.
“I was waiting to get on a bus when I heard a deafening explosion then smoke,” eyewitness Mimi Daniels who works in the capital, told Reuters. “People were running around in panic.”

People help a victim of a bomb blast into the emergency ward of the Asokoro General Hospital in Abuja April 14, 2014. (Reuters / Afolabi Sotunde)

While there were initially thought to have been multiple explosions, subsequent blasts were found to have been “secondary” as fuel tanks in the vehicles ignited.
Dead bodies were scattered around the scene of the attack, and ambulances arrived in the area to take the dead and injured to hospitals.
“Rescue teams are already on ground. There were so many people there at that time, so we think there must have been some injuries,” Manzo Ezekiel of the National Emergency Management Agency told AFP shortly after the blast before details of the death toll were confirmed.

Police officers gather the belongings of victims at the scene of a bomb explosion at Nyanyan, in Abuja April 14, 2014. (Reuters / Afolabi Sotunde)

Local correspondents have suggested that Islamist militant group Boho Haram may have been responsible for the attack.
At least 1,500 people have been killed by Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria this year, according to Amnesty International. The group have targets schools and military installations. In 2011, the group hit the UN building in Abuja.

Burnt and damaged vehicles are seen at the scene of the bomb blast explosion at Nyanya

Boko Haram had been threatening to carry out an attack on the capital. They are suspected of being behind the most recent terrorist attack in Nigeria, in the northeast of the country, which resulted in some 60 deaths.
On Sunday, armed militants besieged Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, near the border with Cameroon.

“The attackers, who are no doubt Boko Haram insurgents, attacked Amchaka and nearby villages this morning, hurling IEDs [improvised explosive devices] into homes and setting them on fire,” local government administrator Baba Shehu Gulumba told AFP.

“They then went on a shooting spree, opening fire on confused residents as they tried to flee, killing 60 people and injuring several others,” he said.

Bomb experts gather evidence at the scene of a bomb blast at Nyanyan in Abuja April 14, 2014. (Reuters / Afolabi Sotunde)

Nigeraia condemns 'merciless beating' of one of its national by S.African Police

Abuja - Nigeria on Thursday protested the "merciless beating" of one its nationals by South African police and demanded that the perpetrators be punished.
Amateur video footage of two armed uniformed policemen and private guards punching and kicking a man on a Cape Town street went viral last week.
The alleged victim has been identified as Nigerian national Clement Emekeneh.
"The video of the attack which has appeared on the social media is particularly disturbing," Nigeria's foreign ministry said in a statement, which described the incident as a "merciless beating”.
The Nigerian embassy in Pretoria has "sent a strongly-worded note to the department of foreign affairs of South Africa protesting the attack and demanding that the perpetrators be brought to justice."
In the video, a security guard rips the shirtless man's trousers off and then a police officer repeatedly punches and kicks the man in the groin.
Another officer holds the victim by the neck.
His underpants come off as the beating continues before he is loaded into a police car.
Two officers, aged 42 and 45 years old, were arrested, charged with assault and granted bail on Monday.
The footage has sparked outrage among many South Africans.
South African police officers are frequently embroiled in allegations of brutality, yet prosecutions rarely occur.
Last year, Mozambican national Mido Macia, died after being dragged behind a moving police patrol van in a town east of Johannesburg.
Nine officers are standing trial for his killing.
Xenophobic attacks across South Africa in May 2008 left 62 people dead and caused thousands to flee their homes.

- AFP