The case of Amaechi v. INEC is clearly distinguishable from the appellant's case: (1) In Amaechi's case the matter was commenced before the regular courts before…

The provisions of section 308 of the 1999 Constitution do not protect a President or Governor from legal proceedings in a matter of his election per…

The fundamental principle is that the duty of evaluation of evidence is pre-eminently that of the trial court which alone has the advantage of seeing and…

For the purpose of effecting land transactions, the fact of his not being the Mogaji of the family did not disqualify him from being the head…

The Yeosa family having conveyed the property in 1964 for valuable consideration cannot turn round in 1972 to impugn its own earlier sale so as to…

To constitute a misrepresentation, the misrepresentor and the misrepresentee must be distinct from one another. Thus where a person who claims to have been deceived by…

It is not proper to proliferate issues for determination to the extent of their outnumbering the grounds of appeal. This is because issues must of necessity…

Limitation statutes are exact as to the time frame. They do not leave the court in doubt, like the Kano State law it is three months;…

Where a statute provides for the institution of an action within a prescribed period, proceedings shall not be brought after the time prescribed by such statute.…

It is now firmly settled that issue of jurisdiction or competence of a court to entertain or deal with a matter before it, is very fundamental.…

If the defendant/appellant, has admitted the averment in the plaintiff/respondent's pleadings that she was its licencee, by which she would be regarded as having entered upon…

It is now firmly established that where two persons claim to be in possession of land in dispute, the law ascribes possession to the one with…