INTERNATIONAL MESSENGERS NIGERIA LIMITED VS ENGINEER DAVID NWACHUKU
June 11, 2025SUNDAY AMALA V. THE STATE
June 11, 2025Legalpedia Citation: (2004) Legalpedia (SC) 71962
In the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Fri Jun 25, 2004
Suit Number: SC. 24/2000
CORAM
GEORGE B. A.COKER, CHIEF JUSTICE OF NIGERIA
SULEIMAN GALADIMA, JUSTICE,SUPREME COURT
IDRIS LEGBO KUTIGI JUSTICE SUPREME COURT
ANTHONY IKECHUKWU IGUH JUSTICE SUPREME COURT
AKINTOLA OLUFEMI EJIWUNMI JUSTICE SUPREME COURT
PARTIES
1. OLUSOLA FATUNBI2. ALABI BANGBOYE (for themselves and on behalf of Fatunbi & Morenikeji Ruling Houses of Igbogila) APPELLANTS
RESPONDENTS
AREA(S) OF LAW
SUMMARY OF FACTS
The appellant and the respondent were both nominated by the Oshin ruling house to contest the vacant chieftaincy position in dispute, the respondent was declared winner upon which the appellant filed this suit claiming among other things that ther was nothing like the oshin ruling house.
HELD
The court held that there was adequate evidence to prove that Oshin is a ruling house in Igbogila, and this being the fundamental issue between the parties all other incidental reliefs claimed by the appellants also fail.
ISSUES
Whether the lower Court was right in holding that the failure of the Appellants to prove so as found by the learned trial Judge that there is Oshin Ruling House must affect the fate of other reliefs by the Appellants which are secondary or incidental to the success of the main claim on the eligibility of Oshin as a ruling house in Igbogila.
RATIONES DECIDENDI
CASES CITED
AFRICAN CONTINENTAL BANK LTD. CALABER VS JOSEPH AGBANYM 1960 FSC 267/1959 [1960] NSCC 12Djukpan V. Orovuyerbe (1967) 1 All N.L.R. 134 at 140 Anyabunsi V. Igwunze (1995) 6, NIWILUR. (Pt. 401) 225 at 272AKINBOBOLA VS. PLISSON FISCO [1991] 1 NWLR (Pt. 167) 270ONAJOBI VS. OLANIPEKUN [1985] 4 SC (Pt. 2) 156. IKE VS. UGBOAJA [1993] 6 NWLR (Pt. 301) 539, ANYANWU VS. MBARA [1992] 5 NWLR (Pt. 242) 386
STATUTES REFERRED TO
None
