There are five ways to prove ownership of land: (a) traditional evidence; (b) documents of title; (c) acts of ownership (selling, leasing, renting, farming); (d) long…

A party relying on traditional history must plead and prove: (a) who founded the land; (b) how the land was founded; and (c) particulars of the…

Traditional evidence is evidence beyond living memory. A story about a dispute taken before a district officer is not traditional evidence but evidence of contemporary history,…

A party who acknowledges the title of his opponent to a parcel of land must prove how that opponent has been divested of title wholly or…

To place the burden of proof wrongly on a party will usually lead to a miscarriage of justice.

Plaintiffs claiming to own communally with the defendants land in the control or possession of the defendants have the burden to prove that the land is…

Suspension of a student in a university is an internal affair of the university to enhance good administration and not necessarily a disciplinary measure. This was…

The university has the power to suspend a student pending investigation of supposed misconduct. A student who seeks to scuttle the investigation by going to court…

A court that dabbles into the arena of university examinations, a most important and sensitive aspect of university function, should remind itself that it has encroached…

The aim of suspending a student is to abort any likelihood of a threatened disturbing atmosphere snowballing into an uncontrollable situation. The university envisaged setting up…

The celebrated case of Garba v. University of Maiduguri is not intended to provide students a licence for unbridled behaviour or to tie the hands of…

Where no examination has been taken, it is idle to ask a court to grant a relief for the release of a result. Such a relief…