Baka Jiji & Anor V. Ibrahim Abare (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OKUNOLA, J.C.A. This is an appeal against the judgment of the Yobe State Sharia Court of Appeal holden at Potiskum delivered on 1/6/94 which reversed the earlier decision of the Upper Area Court, Damagum. The facts of this case briefly put are as…

Yisi Nigeria Limited V. Trade Bank Plc. (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OGEBE, J.C.A. T he appellant instituted an action in Kwara State High Court Ilorin demanding a reinstatement of a stun of 86.560 dollars allegedly improperly taken out or its account by the respondent without its knowledge and consent. The appellant brought an ex-parte…

Chief Alexander Owo & Ors. V. Most Rev. Dr. J.a. Adetiloye & Ors. (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report AKPABIO, J.C.A. This was an application brought on behalf of the present applicants who were the plaintiffs at the trial court, and had obtained an ex-parte injunction before Akubuilo, J. of Anambra State High Court sitting at…

Prof. N.W. Gomwalk & Ors V. Prof. Vincent Nnamdi Okwosa (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report PROFESSOR VINCENT NNAMDI OKWOSA OGUNTADE, J.C.A Delivering the Leading Judgment): At the Jos High Court of Plateau state, the present appellants as applicants brought an application wherein they prayed for “An order setting aside the writ of attachment issued by the…

Mrs. Olayide Okelola V. Adebisi Adeleke (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OKWUCHUKWU OPENE, JCA  This is an appeal against the judgment of Adeyinka J. sitting at Lagos High Court delivered on 3rd day of September 1990 whereby the learned trial judge dismissed the plaintiff’s case in its entirety having come to the conclusion that the…

International Merchant Bank Plc V. Comrade Cycle Co. Ltd. & Anor (1998) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ABDULLAHI, J.C.A. This is an interlocutory appeal against the decision of Kaduna State High Court sitting at Zaria dated 15/7/92. The facts briefly are that, the appellant as financiers, granted facilities to the 1st respondent and the 2nd respondent…

Inland Containers (Nig.) Ltd. & Anor. V. Roger Colman Trading Company Nig. Ltd. (1997) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OGEBE, J.C.A. The respondent company sued the appellants before the Kano High Court claiming the following reliefs in Para. 12 of the statement of claim:- “a. The sum of $360.000 or the Naira equivalent of three thousand…

African Ivory Insurance Company Ltd & Ors V. Commissioner for Insurance (1997) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report AYOOLA, J.C.A.  The two short questions that have arisen on this appeal are: i. whether the Commissioner for Insurance can be sued by using his ii. whether the trial Judge was right when she held that an association which…

ACB Limited V. Sabastine Ufondu (1997) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OGUNTADE, J.C.A. The respondent was the plaintiff before the Maiduguri High Court in suit No. M/9/86 and the appellant the defendant. The appellant (hereinafter referred to as the defendant) is a banking organization. It employed the plaintiff. The plaintiff later rose to the status of…

Abraham Adekunle & Ors. V. Chief Akinremi Aremu & Ors. (1997) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report MUKHTAR, J.C.A. This is an action taken in representative capacities by the plaintiffs who belong to various family chieftaincies of Ilero, against the holder of Sobaloju chieftaincy and some officials of the Government. According to the plaintiffs the Sobaloju chieftaincy…