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The appellant is among the organisations formally declared Public Service under the Act by Government Notice No. 455 published in the Federal Republic of Nigeria Official…

Three months' salary in lieu of such notice will not suffice as was purported in the letter to the respondents. I do not think it is…

The burden is clearly on the appellant here to show that the provisions of S.4 were faithfully complied with. There is nothing in the letter of…

To force a public servant into retirement, that is, before he gets to his retirement age is an unusual action against him in his career. Such…

Any such delegation must, in terms of section 20(1) of the Pensions Act, be by 'order published in the Federal Gazette.' No such delegation of power…

The appellant purported to exercise power which it has not got. Although the lower court misunderstood the essence of Exhibit 'B' by which that power was…

Newspapers and other publications which report what transpires in our courts are to a certain extent, privileged. They serve the cause of public justice on such…

While the onus of proving that the report of publication is fair and accurate lies on the defendant, the burden of proving malice rests solely on…

Qualified privilege is not absolute but qualified and can easily be defeated by malice. Malice means making use of the occasion for some indirect purpose. If…

If the report be as a whole a substantially fair and correct account of the proceedings, a few slight inaccuracies will not deprive it of protection.…

For a report of judicial proceedings to be privileged, it must be proved to be 'fair and accurate'. 'Accurate' means substantially accurate. Although the report must…

Plaintiff's possession in this case is good title against the whole world except the true owner of the land. Although plaintiff failed in his claim for…