Description

A practitioner’s manual for recovery of debts in Nigeria, either through the courts or otherwise. This book is a product of practical hands on experience garnered by the author in recovery of debts in Nigeria. The books starts from the simple process of initiating letters to debtors to the purpose of making it clear to them that there is no room to hide. The book then proceeds to the process of initiating summary proceedings for debt recovery in cases in which the defendant has no viable defence to the action. This area of the book is quite extensive as various rules of court pertaining to summary judgments are carefully examined. This work also deals extensively with securities attached to debts, their strenghts and weaknesses. The learned author then gives practical advice to practitioners on how to proceed towards successful recoveries based on the strenght of the security that their client has. The book also examines in details the extra judicial methods of debt recovery in Nigeria, ranging from out of court negotiations to utilizing law enforcement agents in cases of perceived criminality. furthermore, this books examines the means and methods of foreclosing all avenues open to debtors in order to ensure that they have absolutely no option than to pay their debts.