Matthew Okechukwu Enekwe V. International Merchant Bank Of Nigeria Ltd. & Ors (2006) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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 […]
Adeoye Magbagbeola V. Temitope Sanni (2005) LLJR-SC
Adeoye Magbagbeola V. Temitope Sanni (2005) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KATSINA-ALU, J.S.C. The respondent Temitope Sanni who was the claimant in the Lagos State High Court had on 28th March, 2000 brought an application pursuant to section 7(2) (b) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act Cap. 19 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 […]
Benneth N. Okere V. Prince O.d. Amadi & Ors (2005) LLJR-SC
Benneth N. Okere V. Prince O.d. Amadi & Ors (2005) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report EJIWUNMI, J.S.C. The main question that calls for determination in this appeal is, whether the appellant as opposed to the 1st respondent was properly appointed by the 2nd respondent, the Military Administrator of Imo State as the Traditional Ruler of […]