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Democratic Party of Nigeria & Anor V. United Nigeria Congress Party (Uncp) & Ors (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report JAMES OGENYI OGEBE, J.C.A. The 2nd petitioner and the 2nd respondent contested the Chairmanship election into the Kaduna North Local Government council along with other candidates. The 2nd respondent was declared duly elected when the result…
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Ahmed Tambaya Dawanau V. Sale Shehu Kuidawa (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report IBRAHIM TANKO MUHAMMAD, J.C.A. Ahmed Tambaya Dawanau the petitioner herein contested the Local Government Election under the banner of the National Centre Party of Nigeria (NCPN) along with Sale Shehu Kuidawa, the respondent and his opponent of the Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN).…
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Best (Nigeria) Limited V. Blackwood Hodge (Nigeria) Limited & Ors. (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report PATS-ACHOLONU, J.C.A. The appellant went to court based on a contention that the 1st respondent backed out and unilaterally breached the contract for assignment of the residue of years in a property variously described as No. 11 and 15 Burma…
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Alhaji Abdulla Mohammed & Anor V. Dr. Ramalan Ibrahim & Ors (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report IBRAHIM TANKO MUHAMMAD, J.C.A. At the Kaduna State Local Government Election Tribunal the petitioners filed a petition against the respondents. The endorsement on the petition reads as follows: “The petitioners question the declaration of the 2nd respondent by the…
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Latifu Adekanbi V. Bolaji Folami & Anor (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report MUKHTAR, J.C.A. In the court below the respondent as plaintiff took out a writ of summons against the appellant for the following reliefs:- The annual rental value of the land is N50.00 Pleadings were ordered and exchanged by parties. Briefly put, the case…
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Alhaji Abubakar Abdullah & Anor V. The Military Governor of Lagos State & Ors (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report AKPATA, J.C.A. This appeal revolves on the correct application of the settled but sometimes intriguing principles of law governing the grant or refusal of an order of interim or interlocutory injunction. In the High Court of…
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Ali Agada Daniel V. John Adaji & Ors (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report KALGO, J.C.A. In this review, the petitioner, Ali Agada Daniel, contested for the Councillorship post together with three other contestants in the Igo Ward of Ofu local Government of Kogi State on the 15th of March 1997, on UNCP platform. At the…
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Alhaji Inuwa Abubakar V. Dudu Abdu Gama (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OKUNOLA, JCA This is an appeal against the judgment of the Kano State Sharia Court of Appeal holden in Kano delivered on 30-11-94. The facts of this case briefly put were as follows: The respondent herein as plaintiff sued the appellant herein as…
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Oladapo Fabusola & Anor V. Adubiaro Fakiyesi & Anor (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report MOHAMMED, J.C.A. This appeal is against the judgment of the High Court of Justice of the then Ondo State sitting at Ado-Ekiti and delivered by Akintan J, (as he then was) on 29-3-1990. The parties at the lower court are members…
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Bennet Ude Agu V. Ozo Moses Nnadi (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report SALAMI, J.C.A This is an appeal against the decision of Okadigbo, J., delivered on 25th June, 1990 in the Anambra State High Court, in Enugu Judicial Division silting in Enugu. The claims of the plaintiff which went to trial are – “(a) A…