Alfred Aigbadion V. The State (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report UWAIS, C.J.N.  The appellant was charged in the High Court of Edo State, sitting in Benin City, with the murder of his girlfriend – Victoria Ojo, on the 5th day of January 1993. He was found guilty of the offence and was sentenced to…

Michael A. Omo V. Judicial Service Committee Of Delta State & Ors (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KATSINA – ALU, J.S.C. This is an appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeal Benin Division which overturned the decision of the trial High Court, Benin-City which had earlier held first that the removal of…

Wema Bank Nigeria Ltd. & Ors. V. S. O. Odulaja & Ors. (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report MOHAMMED, J.S.C. This is an appeal from the decision of Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal. The material facts about this appeal may be stated briefly as follows: The 1st appellant granted a loan to the…

Mrs. (Dr.) Abimbola Dejonwo & Anor V. Miss Bidemi Dejonwo & Ors (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report E. OGUNDARE, J.S.C.  This is an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal (Lagos Division) given on 21st July 1993 whereby the Court below allowed in part the Plaintiff’s appeal to it and made some…

Josiah Kayode Owodunni V. Registered Trustees Of Celestial Church Of Christ & Ors. (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGUNDARE, J.S.C. This appeal raises once again the vexed question of locus standi which, in spite of a plethora of decided cases on it, still remains a Gordian knot. A number of judicial pronouncements have been…

Benjamin Obasuyi & Anor V. Business Ventures Ltd (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report M. A. BELGORE, J.S.C. The appellants were defendants at the trial High Court of former Bendel State. The case now on appeal from Court of Appeal, Benin Division arose out of an accident involving a trailer tipper of Mercedes Benz make…

Brawal Shipping (Nigeria) Limited. V. F. I. Onwadike Co. Limited & Anor (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report UWAIFO, J.S.C. The appellant is the 1st defendant against whom, along with the 2nd defendant, a claim of N2,160,820.00 is made in this suit which was instituted in the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt. The statement of…

Sanusi Brothers (Nigeria) Limited V. Cotia Commercio Exportacao E Importacao S. A. (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report WALI, J.S.C. The respondent as plaintiff filed in the High Court of Justice, in the Lagos Judicial Division a specially indorsed writ wherein he claimed as follows:- ‘The Plaintiff’s claim as indorsed on the writ reads as…

Akunwata Joe Oguejiofor Anyaegbunam V. Pastor Okwudili Osaka & Ors (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KATSINA-ALU, J.S.C. This appeal is from a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Enugu Division, delivered on 22 April 1993. The dispute is in respect of a parcel of land at Nkisi Ogbeozala inland Town Onitsha of which the…

Dyktrade Ltd. V. Omnia (Nig.) Ltd. (2000) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report BELGORE, J.S.C. The appellant was the plaintiff in the Federal High Court and the appellant at the Court of Appeal. The claim in the Federal High Court was against the defendant (now respondent as it was in Court of Appeal) as follows:- An…