Goddy Edosa & Anor V. Mrs. Ekomwenrienrien Ogiemwanre (2018) LLJR-SC
Goddy Edosa & Anor V. Mrs. Ekomwenrienrien Ogiemwanre (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KUDIRAT MOTONMORI OLATOKUNBO KEKERE-EKUN, J.S.C. The respondent herein was the plaintiff in a suit she instituted before the High Court of Edo State sitting in the Benin Judicial Division on 3/6/2003 against the 2nd appellant, her brother of full blood and […]
Yahaya Umar V. Federal Republic Of Nigeria (2018) LLJR-SC
Yahaya Umar V. Federal Republic Of Nigeria (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report SIDI DAUDA BAGE, J.S.C. The Appellant was arraigned and prosecuted at the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna Division. Appellant was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment in a judgment delivered on 10th day of July, 2014. The said conviction and […]
Mr. Augustine Arueze & Ors V. Chief Mike A. Nwaukoni (2018) LLJR-SC
Mr. Augustine Arueze & Ors V. Chief Mike A. Nwaukoni (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report SIDI DAUDA BAGE, J.S.C. This appeal is brought by the Appellants/Cross Respondents and the Cross-Appeal brought by the Respondent/Cross-Appellant are against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Benin Division delivered on 12th July 2010 in Appeal No. B/CA/94/2009. […]
Christian Soronnadi &anor Vs Aruji Durugo (2018) LLJR-SC
Christian Soronnadi &anor Vs Aruji Durugo (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report KUDIRAT MOTONMORI OLATOKUNBO KEKERE-EKUN, JSC By their Writ of Summons filed on 14/3/1983 and Statement of Claim filed on 30/8/1983, Fidelis Durugo, Aruji Durugo and Dennis Durugo, for themselves and on behalf of the family of Amasa Ngugo Ikeduru of Ikeduru Local Government […]
Umaru Sunday V Federal Republic Of Nigeria (2018) LLJR-SC
Umaru Sunday V Federal Republic Of Nigeria (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report AMIRU SANUSI, JSC This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Ilorin division (the court below or lower court) delivered on 14th February in which the said lower court affirmed the judgment of the Federal High Court Ilorin, […]
Ogunsanya Oluwaseyi V The State (2018) LLJR-SC
Ogunsanya Oluwaseyi V The State (2018) LAWGLOBAL HUB Lead Judgment Report SIDI DAUDA BAGE, J.S.C. This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal Ibadan Division (Court below),(Lower Court), in Criminal appeal No.CA.1B/413C/2013 delivered on 17th May, 2016 by which said judgment, the Court below affirmed the conviction and sentence passed on […]
General Cotton Mill Limited Vs Travellers Palace Hotel (2018) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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) LLJR-SC
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 […]