Standard (Nigeria) Engineering Company Ltd & Anor. V. Nigerian Bank For Commerce And Industry (2006) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGBUAGU, J.S.C. This is an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal, Benin Division (hereinafter called the court below) delivered on 29th March, 2001, allowing the appeal by the defendant/respondent to it from…

Miss Ifeyinwa Ogoejeofo V. Daniel Chiejina Ogoejeofo (2006) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report MOHAMMED, J.S.C. The dispute between the parties in this appeal originated from a landed property known or described as No. 25A, Old Market Road, Onitsha. The property was held under the Mgbelekeke Kola tenancy system of Onitsha by the late Charles Akosa…

Matthew Okechukwu Enekwe V. International Merchant Bank Of Nigeria Ltd. & Ors (2006) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report TOBI, J.S.C. The appellant is the plaintiff. He is the registered owner of plot No.3, Julius Bala Crescent, Legislators Quarters, Jos. The Certificate of Occupancy bears No. BP 3785. The appellant is also the Chairman and Managing…

Adetokunbo Ogunlana & Ors Vs The State (2005) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report IGUH, JSC. The appellants, Adetokunbo Ogunlana, Segun Adebayo Onile, Kayode Bakare and Caroline M. Ogunlana along with four others were arraigned on the 12th day of January, 1987 before the High Court of Lagos State, holden at Ikeja on a two count…

Teno Engineering Limited. V. Alhaji Taliru Yusuf Adisa (2005) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report BELGORE, J.S.C. An action on General Cause List at the High Court of Borno State sitting at Maiduguri was filed by the appellant. The cause of action involves interest in certain right of occupancy. The appellant, as plaintiff served the statement…

Sampson Nkemji Uwaekweghinya V. The State (2005) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report MUSDAPHER, J.S.C. In the High Court of Justice of the former Imo State in the Umuahia Judicial Division (now in Abia State), the appellant herein was arraigned for the offence of murder contrary to and punishable under section 319(1) of the Criminal Code,…

Reynolds V. Rocknor (2005) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGUNTADE, J.S.C  The dispute leading to this appeal arose from a landlord and tenant relationship. The respondent was the plaintiff at the Enugu High Court. It owned an estate consisting of several buildings in Enugu. It leased several of these buildings to the defendant, a foreign…

Chief S.l. Durosaro V. T.A.A. Ayorinde (2005) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report EJIWUNMI, J.S.C. The action which led to this appeal was commenced in the Ibadan Judicial Division of the High Court of Oyo State of Nigeria by the respondent as plaintiff, against sixteen (16) defendants including the appellant in this appeal, in suit No.…

United Bank For Africa Plc V. Btl Industries Ltd (2005) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report OGUNTADE, J.S.C. The appellant, United Bank for Africa Plc. by its motion filed on 23/2/ 05 prayed for the following: “(1) An order granting leave to the appellant to raise fresh issues of law as to: (a) frustration; (b) public…

Stirling Civil Engineering (Nigeria) Ltd V. Ambassador Mahmood Yahaya (2005) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report EDOZIE, J.S.C. The material facts that gave rise to this case are undisputed. The appellant, a civil engineering construction company in the process of the execution of a road construction project, entered in the respondent’s farmland to excavate large quantities…