"It is settled law that there are five ways in which ownership of land may be proved as follows β (a) by traditional evidence; (b) by production of documents of...
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"A party who seeks title to land and relied on traditional history must, to succeed, plead and prove facts as to: (a) who founded the land; (b) how the land...
"Traditional evidence is evidence beyond living memory. [β¦] It is not every story which touches on the land in dispute that can be categorized as traditional evidence. The story about...
"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 partially of the ownership...
"To place the burden of proof wrongly on a party will usually lead to a miscarriage of justice."
"In the instant case, though not family land, the plaintiffs who are claiming to own communally with the defendants the land in dispute which land they acknowledge to be in...
"This was an administrative act intended to ensure good and stable administration of the institution and which he was empowered to do. In the Garba v. University of Maiduguri case...
"In the instant case the University of Calabar only set in motion machinery for dealing with the supposed misconduct of the appellant whereby he was merely suspended. It seems the...
"A court of law which dabbles or flirts 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 the student is to abort any likelihood of the threatened disturbing atmosphere snow balling into an uncontrollable situation. The University envisaged that they would set up...
"The celebrated case of Garba v. University of Maiduguri (Supra) is not intended to be a court-given licence and judicial umbrella to provide Students of unbridled, recalcitrant and impetuous behaviour...
"Where no examination has been taken it is idle to ask a court to grant a relief of the release of a result. It is my view that should any...