It is the cardinal principle of interpreting the Constitution that the provisions of the Constitution must be read together and not disjointly.

The amount standing to the credit of local government councils in the Federation Account shall also be allocated to the States for the benefit of their…

Nowhere in the Constitution is the President expressly or impliedly authorised to suspend or withhold statutory allocation payable to a state. If the President has a…

There is a world of difference between stool land and communal land. Stool land is vested in the Chief absolutely; the Chief has complete use as…

The role of a court is to adjudicate on matters presented to it by the parties. A trial court has no jurisdiction to raise a matter…

High Courts have jurisdiction over matters involving customary rights of occupancy, a jurisdiction previously vested only in customary courts and area courts. The decision in Adisa…

Credibility of a witness is a matter for a trial judge, not an appellate judge. The trial judge sees the witness; an appellate judge reads the…

Where the trial court has failed to address and determine a vital issue raised on the pleadings, the proper order to make is an order of…

Failure to serve process where service is required is a fundamental vice. It deprives the trial court of the necessary competence and jurisdiction to hear the…

Failure to serve process where service is required goes to the root of proper procedure in litigation. An order made in those circumstances is not a…

The procedure is totally covered by the provisions of section 32(1)(c) of the 1979 Constitution because what was done at that stage was that the court…

Under the rules, two conditions are prescribed for proof of service. First, there must be an affidavit of service. Second, such affidavit shall be produced at…