Veteran Nigerian comic, Ali Baba, has been evicted from his Victoria Island property in Lagos state.
He was evicted alongside his firm, XQZMOI TV, after a writ of possession signed by the Federal Excessive Courtroom on August 15, 2025.
The property was offered to Ali Baba for N220 million by the federal authorities in 2021, by the Property Administration Company of Nigeria, AMCON.
AMCON claimed to have offered out the property to recuperate the money owed allegedly owed by Harold Growth Industries Nigeria Restricted.
Dismissing AMCON’s case, Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa, in his ruling on July 31, 2025, stated the company failed to supply proof of the alleged debt.
The courtroom ordered that the property be returned to its authentic proprietor, and in addition imposed a N500 million superb in damages on AMCON.
DAILY POST experiences that the comic’s legal responsibility within the case got here because of the timing he purchased the property.
Ali Baba, who was a tenant of the property’s authentic proprietor earlier than their eviction by AMCON, reportedly purchased the property whereas the case was nonetheless in courtroom, regardless of an current preservation order.
