His Highness Erejuwa Ii The Olu Of Warri & Ors. V. Egharegbeyiwa O. Kperegbeyi & Ors (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report WALI, J.S.C.  The plaintiffs brought an action in Warri High court, Warri Judicial Division as per the amended Writ of Summons, seeking the following declarations and orders that:- “The recommendation, nomination and/or selection of…

Chief Mark Olugbemi Obada & Ors. V. Military Governor Of Kwara State & Ors. (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BELGORE, J.S.C. The plaintiffs in the trial court are the appellants here as they were in the Court of Appeal, Kaduna branch. They all come from a village called Ponyan, then in Kwara State but now…

Monday Chukwu V. The State (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADIO, J.S.C. The charge preferred against the appellant at the High Court, Imo State, Owerri Judicial Division, was murder contrary to section 319 of the Criminal code, Cap. 30 of the Laws of Eastern Nigeria, 1963, applicable in Imo State. The allegation against him was…

Princewill V. The State (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report IGUH, J.S.C. The appellant, Jeminabo A. Princewill, was on the 8th day of March, 1985 arraigned before the High court of Rivers State holden at Port Harcourt, charged with the offence of murder contrary to section 319 of the Criminal code. The particulars of the offence…

National Bank Of Nigeria Ltd. V. P.B. Olatunde & Co. Nigeria Ltd. (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OGWUEGBU, J.S.C. The defendants awarded a building construction contract of their bank building at Ilorin, Kwara State to the plaintiffs for the sum of N451,857,22. The contract was stated to be in writing. By a letter dated 13th…

Jimoh Akinfolarin & Ors. V. Solomon Oluwole Akinnola (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report IGUH, J.S.C. In the Ondo Judicial Division of the High Court of Justice, Ondo State, the plaintiffs, who are now the appellants, for themselves and on behalf of the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society, Ode, Ondo caused a writ of summons to issue against the…

Alhaji A. Aliyu V. Dr. John Adewunmi Sodipo (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report OGUNDARE, J.S.C. The Ifadu Alase family of Ojuwoye in Mushin district of Lagos State owned a large area of land at Idiroko near Maryland Ikeja. Some years ago the said family sold a part of their land to one Fashola (who had…

Augustine Nwangbomu V. The State (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BELGORE, J.S.C. The appellant, Augustine Nwangbomu was to marry one Juliana Igwe, a child. It seems that by custom of Ezza in Abakaliki she had to stay with the proposed husband for a while to decide whether they could live together as husband wife. Juliana…

Sunday Baridam Vs The State (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report IGUH, JSC  The appellant, Sunday Baridam, was on the 21st day of July, 1986 arraigned before the high court of Rivers State, holden at the Bon, charged with the offence of murder contrary to section 319 of the Criminal Code. The particulars of the offence…

Ogbuokwelu V Umeanafunkwa (1994) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ONU, J.S.C.  This appeal is from the decision of the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu dated 16th January, 1992 and which upset the judgment of Obiesie,J., sitting at the Anambra State High Court holden in Onitsha and delivered on October 13,1989. The reliefs sought by the…