Alhaja Abeni Bako & Ors. V Joseph Bolaji Laniyan & Ors (2002) LLJR-SC
Alhaja Abeni Bako & Ors. V Joseph Bolaji Laniyan & Ors (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report I. KATSINA-ALU, J.S.C. The plaintiffs sued the defendants before an Ikeja High Court claiming a declaration of right of occupancy in respect of a parcel of land, damages for trespass and injunction. In the course of the trial […]
Sunday Uzokwe V. Densy Industries Nig. Ltd & Anor (2002) LLJR-SC
Sunday Uzokwe V. Densy Industries Nig. Ltd & Anor (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report O. OGWUEGBU, J.S.C. This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Enugu Division delivered on 7th July, 1998 allowing the appeal of the defendants who were appellants in that court. The plaintiff instituted an action in […]
Chief Kalu Okorie Irolo & Ors. V. Ebe Ebe Uka & Anor. (2002) LLJR-SC
Chief Kalu Okorie Irolo & Ors. V. Ebe Ebe Uka & Anor. (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report E. OGUNDARE, J.S.C. In Suit No. HU/59/74, Elder James Okoro and Chief Benjamin Uduma Abam, for themselves and as representing Ndi Ojiugwo Village of Abam sued Chief Kalu Okorie Irolo, Alugwe Okeke, Nicholas Uka Kalu, Sunday Dike […]
Chief Kalu Igwe & Ors V. Chief Okuwa Kalu & Ors (2002) LLJR-SC
Chief Kalu Igwe & Ors V. Chief Okuwa Kalu & Ors (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report E.O. OGWUEGBU, JSC. On the 15th of February, 2002, this Court delivered judgment in the above appeal. The plaintiff/appellant’s appeal was dismissed by the majority judgment. On the 20th February, 2002, the appellants brought a motion on notice […]
Comptroller, Nigerian Prisons Services, Ikoyi, Lagos & Ors V. Dr. Femi Adekanye & Ors… (2002) LLJR-SC
Comptroller, Nigerian Prisons Services, Ikoyi, Lagos & Ors V. Dr. Femi Adekanye & Ors… (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report O. EJIWUNMI, J.S.C. This appeal is against the ruling of the court below delivered on the 6th of July, 1999. The ruling was delivered sequel to an application brought before that court by the respondents […]
Chukwuma Ezekude V. Okwuezulu Odogwu & Ors (2002) LLJR-SC
Chukwuma Ezekude V. Okwuezulu Odogwu & Ors (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report M. A. BELGORE, J.S.C. This appeal arose out of two consolidated suits in the High Court of former Bendel State which went on appeal to Court of Appeal, Benin branch. The two suits were first heard at Kwale but for reasons not […]
Justice K. O. Anyah V. Imo Concorde Hotels Limited & Ors (2002) LLJR-SC
Justice K. O. Anyah V. Imo Concorde Hotels Limited & Ors (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report A. KALGO, JSC. By a writ of summons issued at the Imo State High Court, in the Owerri Judicial Division, on the 17th of March 1987, the appellant as plaintiff claimed against the respondents jointly and severally, as […]
Oba Amos Babatunde & Ors V. Mr. Simon Olatunji & Anor (2002) LLJR-SC
Oba Amos Babatunde & Ors V. Mr. Simon Olatunji & Anor (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KATSINA-ALU, J.S.C. The main question that arises for determination in this appeal is: Whether a person against whom a judgment is given or an order made can disobey and ignore it on the ground that it is null […]
Solomon Ogboh & Anor V. The Fed. Republic Of Nigeria (2002) LLJR-SC
Solomon Ogboh & Anor V. The Fed. Republic Of Nigeria (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report O. OGWUEGBU, J.S.C. This appeal is against the judgment of the Miscellaneous Offences Tribunal, Kaduna Zone, which found the appellant and one Steven Alele guilty of dealing in 198.5 kilograms of indian hemp otherwise known as Cannabis Sativa without […]
Federal Mortgage Bank Of Nigeria. V. P. N. Olloh (2002) LLJR-SC
Federal Mortgage Bank Of Nigeria. V. P. N. Olloh (2002) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report O. UWAIFO, J.S.C. The respondent got a loan from the appellant’s Benin City Branch in 1979 upon a mortgage deed in which he used his property at No.23 (now No.63) Okumagba Avenue, Warri as collateral. In September, 1992, he liquidated […]