General Cotton Mill Limited Vs Travellers Palace Hotel (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report AMINA ADAMU AUGIE, J.S.C. This Appeal arose from a dispute over a plot of land “situate and lying between Plots 16 and 18 Ridge Road, GRA Onitsha”, and turns on the proper interpretation and application of Section 5 (2) of the…

Oba J.A. Awolola, The Ededa Of Eda-oniyo Ekiti Vs The Governor Of Ekiti State & 2 Ors (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report PAUL ADAMU GALINJE, JSC On the 1st of October, 1996, the Federal Military Government of Nigeria, by the State’s Creation Transitional Provisions Decree NO. 36 of 1999 created among others, Ekiti State…

Chief Obasi Lawson Vs Elder Chinedu Okoronkwo &ors (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report EJEMBI EKO, J.S.C. The main appeal and the challenge to the competence of the appeal, vide the motion on notice filed on 6th September, 2018 challenging the competence of the appeal, were argued together on 25th September, 2018. The said Motion…

Tajudeen Adisa Vs The State (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KUMAI BAYANG AKA’AHS, J.S.C. The appellant and his co-accused were tried for conspiracy to commit armed robbery and armed robbery and they were sentenced to death for the said offences by the Ogun State High Court. They appealed against their conviction and sentence to…

Charles Igwe Vs The State (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KUMAI BAYANG AKAAHS, JSC The appellant was the 4th accused in amended Charge No. A/57C/2008 before the Anambra State High Court, Awka for the offences of conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder. Before the arraignment could take place, the learned counsel appearing for…

Controller General Of Customs Vs. Controller Abdullahi B. Gusau (2017) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report SIDI DAUDA BAGE, JSC. I have had a preview of the Lead Judgment delivered by my learned brother Eko, JSC, and I agree with him that the Appeal lacks merit. I will add a few words of my own in…

Attorney General Of The Federation Vs Olaniyi Jones (2017) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report YARGATA BYENCHIT NIMPAR This appeal is against the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos delivered on the 13th July, 2012 wherein the court dismissed an application brought by the Appellant seeking to extradite the Respondent on a diplomatic…

Sale Ado Vs. The State (2017) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report MUSA DATTIJO MUHAMMAD, JSC The Kaduna Division of the Court of Appeal, hereinafter referred to as the lower court, on dismissing the appellant’s appeal against his conviction and sentence for conspiracy, robbery and culpable homicide by the Kano State High Court, the trial court,…

Idi Muh’d (Alias Idua) Vs. The State (2017) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report SIDI DAUDA BAGE, JSC This is an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal, Kaduna Judicial Division, delivered on the 6th day of June 2014, in Appeal No. CA/K/202/C/2013. The Court of Appeal, affirmed the decision of the Jigawa High…

Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) Vs. Chief Felix Onowakpoko (2017) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report HON.JUSTICE S. D. BAGE This appeal is against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Benin Division delivered on the 28th day of May, 2015 which affirmed the judgment of the Federal High Court Warri suit No. FHC/WR/CS/60/2014, delivered on…