Innocent Igwe V. The State (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. IRIKEFE, JSC  In this case there are two concurrent findings of fact against the appellant. There was evidence before the trial court that this appellant along with others at large, took part in the robbery the subject of the charge. He was unmasked and…

Anya Irokwe & The State (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. IRIKEFE, J.S.C.  This appeal clearly lacks merit. The appellant who had loaned his close relation, the deceased, his motorcycle for a return trip to Uyo from Aba took offence when the latter told him that the seat cover had got lost. All pleas by…

Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa V. Auta Hamza & Ors (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report S. SOWEMIMO, J.S.C.  This is a matter in which counsel has been instructed to appeal. There are rules of the Supreme Court of Nigeria which govern the procedure. No justifiable reason had been given why these rules have not been followed.…

Dickson Aighobahi V. The State (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report UDOMA, J.S.C I think the learned counsel, Chief Jibowu, appearing for the appellant is correct in intimating to the court that there is nothing that can possibly be urged in favour of the appellant. The appeal is therefore dismissed as without substance. G. S. SOWEMIMO,…

Asuquo Eyo Okon & Ors V. The State (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. S. SOWEMIMO, J.S.C  The Federal Court of Appeal, Enugu dismissed this appeal because the notice of appeal was wrongly headed. That was the law before the decision of this court in Nofiu Surakatu v. Nigerian Housing Development Society (1981) 4 S.C.…

Johnson Utie V. The State (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report S. SOWEMIMO, J.S.C. The deceased in this case was a young girl who had gone out on the material date to fetch water. According to the appellant, he had been accused for putting the young girl in family way. He met the young girl on…

N. A. Williams & Ors. V. Hope Rising Voluntary Funds Society (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report IDIGBE, J.S.C.  This appeal challenges the decision of two of three learned Justices of Appeal in the Federal Court of Appeal holden in Lagos (hereinafter referred to simply as “the Court of Appeal”) dismissing an appeal from the decision…

Joseph Omoyoma Tobi V. The State (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. IRIKEFE, J.S.C. The appellant who had shot and critically injured one “YELLOW”, a female, who had rejected his love advances, and escaped was being sought by a posse sent out by the villagers. As the search party had him in sight and appeared…

Chief Jacob Ibanga & Ors V. Chief Edet Usanga & Ors (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. IRIKEFE, J.S.C  This case can rightly be described as having had a chequered history. The writ commencing the action was issued in the Calabar Judicial Division of the then High Court Of Eastern Nigeria on 21st April, 1964.…

Otobo Otuada V. The State (1982) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report G. IRIKEFE, J.S.C.: The appellant in this case, while armed with a loaded dane gun, knocked viciously on the door to the apartment where the deceased lay sleeping calling him by name as he did so. This was quite late at night and as the…