Principle Archive

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…

The situation of suspension pending investigation differs from outright expulsion. In Garba v. University of Maiduguri, there was outright expulsion; in the instant case, there was…

Under the decision, the provisions of section 134 of the Electoral Act are exhaustive. An election or return cannot be questioned on any issue outside the…

A court that imports a statute into another statute when the enabling statute does not anticipate such importation will be said to be making the law…

It is very important for counsel to bear in mind that a case is the only authority for what is actually decided. It is only the…

Unnamed, unidentified, and unassigned persons such as Police and Army personnel as well as political party agents or thugs cannot be made parties to an election…

A petitioner is free to choose whether to come under the Constitution or under the Electoral Act. Once that decision is made, the rules, procedures, and…