Having found the trial court proceedings a nullity, those before the Court of Appeal is a fortiori a nullity and of no effect.

In Kajubo v. The State (1988) 1 NWLR (Pt.73) 721, this court provided the following guide lines on arraignment of an accused person and the taking…

The person to be tried upon any charge or information shall be placed before the court unfettered unless the court shall see cause otherwise to order…

I do not think that view has any merit either by way of the interpretation of the said s. 87 of the Evidence Act or by…

In any affidavit used in the court, the law requires, as provided in sections 86 and 87 of the Evidence Act, that it shall contain only…

In an application for bail pending trial, there is good reason to believe or strongly suspect that the accused will jump bail thereby making himself unavailable…

It is the essence of the matter that the evidence available (usually by the proofs of evidence) filed by the prosecution in court be examined when…

The general rule is that a court has a duty to pronounce on all material issues raised before it... But the result of a Court of…

The failure by the lower court to consider the said issue 2 in the present case would not ipso facto be taken as the type of…

A decision made by the trial court on wrongful admission of evidence or wrongful rejection of evidence is part of the main trial and not an…

Without the resolution of the issues raised before the court below, this court cannot deliberate upon them. For that reason this appeal will be remitted to…

It is manifest that the appellants cannot be said to have had a fair hearing before the court below. ... It is patent that the court…