Nader V Board Of Customs & Excise (1965) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, J.S.C. The appellant was prosecuted on two counts laid under section 145(a) of the Customs and Excise Management Act, 1958; he was acquitted by the Chief Magistrate, E. Allswell Uranta, Esq.; the prosecutor appealed to the High Court, where Betuel, J. ordered…

Kubua Bukie Odu V The State (1965) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, J.S.C.  The appellant was tried in the High Court of Eastern Nigeria on an Information containing three counts for forgery, one for uttering and one for attempting to steal, and was convicted on all five counts.The facts which the trial judge found proved…

S.A.T. Taylor And Ors V Kingsway Stores Of Nigeria Ltd & Anor (1965) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN In this appeal the plaintiffs complain of the judgement given by Onyeama J. On 17th October, 1962 when a judge of the High Court of Lagos, and dismissing their suit for recovery of possession of the property…

Chief Festus Makene Ikomi V Bank Of West Africa Ltd (1965) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, J.S.C. The plaintiff sued the bank for a declaration that the guarantee he signed on 11th July, 1960 was void, and for ancillary relief; he failed in the High Court and has appealed. Briefly put, the allegations in the…

Attorney-general Western Nigeria Vs The African Press (1965) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report ADEMOLA, C.J.N.  The Director of Public Prosecutions, Western Nigeria, initiated in the name of the Attorney-General, Western Nigeria, criminal proceedings against the two respondents in the High Court, Ibadan, by means of an information which he signed personally. The charges against them were…

Chanrai & Co. (Nigeria) Ltd V Khawam (1965) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report COKER, J.S.C.  This is an appeal from the judgment of the Ibadan High Court (Somolu, J.) awarding in favour of the respondent, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, a total amount of £6,832-10s as damages and 500 guineas costs. The appellants, hereinafter referred…

The Governor, Eastern Nigeria V Eugene Onyelu & Ors (1965) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BRETT, J.S.C.  This is an appeal by the Governor of Eastern Nigeria against an order for costs made against him in proceedings on an originating summons taken out by him for the determination of the question who was entitled to £38-8s-0d…

Yanor & Anor V The State (1965) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report IDIGBE, J.S.C. The appellants were convicted of the offence of culpable homicide contrary to section 221 of the Penal Code (Northern Nigeria) and each sentenced to death by the High Court, Northern Nigeria (Jones, J.). A summary of the case for the prosecution is…

Oyekan & Oyedeji V Akinjide S.A. Akinleye, Electoral Officer For Ibadan South-west Federal Constituency (1965) ONYEAMA JSC This is an application for leave to appeal to this Court from an interlocutory order made during the hearing of an election petition by Fatayi-Williams, J. in the High Court of Western Nigeria at Ibadan on the 31st of…

Iyu V The State (1965) LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report BAIRAMIAN, J.S.C.  On February 17th, 1965 at Abakaliki in Eastern Nigeria, Phil-Ebosie J. convicted the appellant of the murder on the 5th April, 1964 at Okpoto Ntezi, in the Abakaliki Judicial Division, of one Ogbu Igele: (charge AB/84C/64). That the appellant killed him is not in…