Build a Tenant Rights Toolkit for Lagos Renters Facing Illegal Eviction

In Lagos, the majority of low-income tenants rent under verbal agreements or poorly written receipts. Landlords routinely issue eviction notices with no legal basis, cut off utilities, or lock out tenants without any court order. Most tenants comply out of fear because they have never seen a document that tells them what they are actually entitled to. The Tenancy Law of Lagos State (2011) gives renters meaningful protections, including minimum notice periods, restrictions on self-help eviction, and the right to a receipt for every payment. The gap is not in the law itself but in whether ordinary people can access and understand it. A market trader in Mushin or a factory worker in Ilupeju is unlikely to have encountered this law in any usable form. Your task is to produce a tenant rights toolkit: a designed PDF or web document, no more than eight pages, written in plain English and optionally adapted into Pidgin. It should cover the most common crisis scenarios, what a tenant can do in each, and who they can contact. Include a one-page summary card suitable for printing and pinning to a notice board. Good work will be genuinely readable by someone with a secondary school education, legally accurate against the 2011 Law, and designed so it can be shared via WhatsApp. Cite your sources. Include at least one worked example scenario showing how the toolkit applies in practice.