Aice Investment Company Limited & Ors v. Fidelity Bank Plc (2024) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report – SUPREME COURT CHIDI NWAOMA UWA, JSC (Delivering the leading judgment) The appeal emanated from the judgment of the High Court of Anambra State, Nnewi Judicial Division presided over by M. I. Onochie, J (as he then was) (hereinafter…

Fidelity Bank Plc v. James Olanrewaju & Ors (2024) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report – SUPREME COURT ABUBAKAR SADIQ UMAR, JSC (Delivering the leading judgment) This is an appeal against the Judgment of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Judicial Division (lower court), delivered on 31st July, 2019. The judgment affirmed the decision of the High…

Ruwa Tufara Magama v. Abubakar Karami Masama (2024) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report – SUPREME COURT ABUBAKAR SADIQ UMAR, JSC (Delivering the leading judgment) This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Sokoto Division, hereinafter called the lower court or the court below in appeal No. CA/S/39S/2016, delivered on the 7th…

Hali Hassan v. The State (2024) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report – SUPREME COURT IBRAHIM MOHAMMED MUSA SAULAWA, JSC (Delivering the leading judgment) The instant appeal is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal Sokoto Judicial Division, delivered on March 23, 2017 in appeal No. CA/S/21C/2015. By the said judgment, the court below affirmed…

Carnation Registrars Limited (Formerly Mainstreet Bank Registrars Limited) v. The President Of The National Industrial Court Of Nigeria & Ors (2023) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report – SUPREME COURT TIJJANI ABUBAKAR, JSC (Delivering the leading judgment) This appeal is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Judicial Division, delivered on the 24th day…

First Bank Of Nigeria Plc & Ors v. Ben-segba Technical Services Limited & Ors (2024) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report – SUPREME COURT STEPHEN JONAH ADAH, JSC (Delivering the leading judgment) This is an appeal from the Benin Division of the lower court in appeal No: CA/B/269/2011, wherein the lower court allowed the appeal in…

The State v. Jerry Gideon (2024) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report – SUPREME COURT OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, JSC (Delivering the leading judgment) This appeal censures the rightness of the decision of the Court of Appeal, Yola Division (hereinafter addressed as the lower court), Coram Judice: C.N Uwa, JCA (now JSC), J.S. Abiriyi, JCA, and A.M.…

Jabiru Yusuf Yau-yau v. All Progressives Congress & Ors (2023) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report – SUPREME COURT ADAMU JAURO, JSC (Delivering the leading judgment) The appeal herein is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Kaduna Division delivered on 3rd February, 2023 in appeal No. CA/K/303/2022, wherein the court dismissed the appellant’s appeal…

Habu Samaila v. The State (2023) LLJR-CA LawGlobal-Hub Lead Judgment Report – COURT OF APPEAL ITA GEORGE MBABA, JCA (Delivering the leading judgment) This appeal emanated from the decision of Jigawa State High Court in Charge No. JUD/28C/2015, delivered on 17th January, 2019 by Hon. Justice A.M. Abubakar, whereof appellant was convicted and sentenced to…

Jaho Mohammed v. The State (2022) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report – SUPREME COURT HELEN MORONKEJI OGUNWUMIJU, JSC (Delivering the leading judgment) This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Sokoto Division hereinafter referred to as the court below Coram: Hussein Mukhtar, (JCA), Muhammed L. Shuaibu (JCA) and Frederick O. Oho…