Nigeria, Sept. 16 -- Veteran Nigerian singer Uche Ibeto and her siblings are locked in a property dispute over their late mother Esther Ibeto's one-storey building in Surulere, Lagos.

Ms Ibeto, popular as the "Jigida Queen," is a septuagenarian highlife and traditional music star famed for the 1988 classic 'Egwi Jigida' and decades of live performances across Nigeria's cultural circuit.

The dispute stems from Ms Ibeto's accusation that her elder sister, Laura Okoh, working with a judicial officer, conspired to eject her from the house where she had lived for more than 50 years with their mother until the matriarch died in 2013.

Her family has denied the allegation, describing it as false and misleading.

After this denial, Kenneth Josh...