"Issues for determination must fall within the scope or ambit of the grounds of appeal, any issue for determination falling outside the ambit or scope of the grounds of appeal...
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"The appellants shall not be allowed to improvise their case on appeal, and the issues to be resolved at any time even in the appellate courts must at times emanate...
"Issues for determination in an appeal should be formulated in general practical terms and tailored to the real issues in controversy in the case. Prolixity or proliferation of issues is...
"It is not in all occasions that a court must inevitably accept the issues framed by the appellant as though they are immutable particularly when the issues formulated by the...
"There can be no doubt that courts of law have the power to raise suo motu relevant issue or issues which are not before the court for the determination of...
"The case of Obi Nwanze Okonji and 4 Ors. v. George Njokanma and 2 Ors. (1991) 7 NWLR (Pt. 202) 131 and 146 is authority for the view that when...
"The sole issue was whether exhibit 'A' was a conviction of the person mentioned therein... It is clear in my humble view, that that court correctly adjudged what transpired between...
"This court has said on a number of occasions that although an appeal court is entitled, in its discretion, to take points suo motu if it sees fit to do...
"The appeal of the appellant to the court below was only competent to the extent that the two issues raised were a challenge to the finding of the trial court...
"A ground of appeal and/or issue for determination which does not derive from the judgment appealed against is incompetent."
"The court below, not being the final court had a duty to decide the merit of the case upon the issues canvassed before it, notwithstanding that it resolved the issue...
"It is the law that neither a party nor a court is permitted to argue or deal with an issue not related to any ground of appeal."
