Chukwuma Ezekude V. Okwuezulu Odogwu & Ors (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report M. A. BELGORE, J.S.C. This appeal arose out of two consolidated suits in the High Court of former Bendel State which went on appeal to Court of Appeal, Benin branch. The two suits were first heard at Kwale but for reasons not…

Justice K. O. Anyah V. Imo Concorde Hotels Limited & Ors (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report A. KALGO, JSC. By a writ of summons issued at the Imo State High Court, in the Owerri Judicial Division, on the 17th of March 1987, the appellant as plaintiff claimed against the respondents jointly and severally, as…

Oba Amos Babatunde & Ors V. Mr. Simon Olatunji & Anor (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KATSINA-ALU, J.S.C. The main question that arises for determination in this appeal is: Whether a person against whom a judgment is given or an order made can disobey and ignore it on the ground that it is null…

Solomon Ogboh & Anor V. The Fed. Republic Of Nigeria (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report O. OGWUEGBU, J.S.C. This appeal is against the judgment of the Miscellaneous Offences Tribunal, Kaduna Zone, which found the appellant and one Steven Alele guilty of dealing in 198.5 kilograms of indian hemp otherwise known as Cannabis Sativa without…

Federal Mortgage Bank Of Nigeria. V. P. N. Olloh (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report O. UWAIFO, J.S.C. The respondent got a loan from the appellant’s Benin City Branch in 1979 upon a mortgage deed in which he used his property at No.23 (now No.63) Okumagba Avenue, Warri as collateral. In September, 1992, he liquidated…

Dominic Princent & Anor V. The State (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report I. IGUH, J.S.C. The appellants were on the 4th day of October, 1989, arraigned before the High Court of Justice, Kano State, holden at Kano charged with the offence of culpable homicide punishable with death contrary to section 221 of the Penal…

Comptroller, Nigerian Prisons Services, Ikoyi, Lagos & Ors. V. Dr. Femi Adekanye & Ors (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report O. EJIWUNMI, J.S.C. The proceedings leading to this appeal deserve to be set down as much as possible in order to appreciate how this appeal eventually weaded its way into this court. The respondents were…

Tsokwa Oil Marketing Co. Nig. Ltd. V. Bank Of The North Ltd (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report U. ONU, J.S.C.  In the High Court of Taraba State holden at Wukari, the plaintiff (hereinafter referred to as “the appellant”) filed an action by a writ of summons dated 22/10/91 against the defendant (hereinafter called “the…

Chief Alimonu Ajukwara & Ors V. Sebastine Izuoji & Ors (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report L. KUTIGI, JSC. In the High Court holden at Oguta the Plaintiffs in paragraph 15 of their Further Amended Statement of Claim, claimed against the Defendants jointly and severally as follows: (a) Declaration that the Plaintiffs are entitled to…

Akanbi Agbeje V. Chief Agba Akin (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report ANTHONY I. IGUH, J.S.C This land case was initiated at the Upper Area Court, Omu –Aran. In that court, the plaintiffs, for themselves and as representing the Idofin Odo-Ase Community, claimed against the defendants, as representatives of Irodo family in Idofin Odo-Ase, as…