CHIEF ALPHEAUS FEMENE, CHIEF CHARLES AYASANG, CHIEF SALVATION UKUTA, CHIEF AMADI CURDKEN & CHIEF EZEKIEL FRANK (FOR THEMSELVES AND ON BEHALF OF THE DISPLACED INDIGENES OF RIVERS, BAYELSA AND DELTA STATES RESIDENTS IN THE BAKASSI PENINSULA (NOW CEDED TO THE REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON). V. THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, THE HONOURABLE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MINISTER OF JUSTICE OF THE FEDERATION
(2024) JELR 112093 (CA)
Court of Appeal
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CA/ABJ/CV/536/2015
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21 Mar 2024
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Nigeria
Coram
JOSEPH OLUBUNMI KAYODE OYEWOLE JCA
ABBA BELLO MOHAMMED JCA
PETER CHUDI OBIORAH JCA
Appearances
Sir Anthony O. Chukwurah Esq, for the Appellants.
Suleiman Jibril Esq, Senior State Counsel, FMOJ, Abuja, with Hassan Ndahi Esq, State Counsel, FMOJ, Abuja, for the Respondents.
Judgement
<p class="ql-align-justify"><strong><span style="background-color: transparent">ABBA BELLO MOHAMMED, JCA   (Delivering the Leading Judgement): </span></strong><span style="background-color: transparent">This is an appeal against the final judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division (the trial court), delivered on the 17th of December, 2014 by Honourable Justice I. N. Auta. The judgment is at pages 380 – 467 of the Record of Appeal. Dissatisfied with the judgment, the Appellants brought this appeal vide Notice of Appeal filed on 6th March, 2015 which is at pages 468 – 474 of the Record of Appeal.</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: transparent">At the hearing of the appeal on 17th January, 2024, the parties adopted their respective briefs of argument. In the Appellants Brief of Argument filed on the 23rd of February, 2018, the Appellants formulated three (3) issues for determination, as follows:</span></p><ol><li class="ql-align-justify"><span style="background-color: transparent">Whether the trial Court was right in overlooking the oral testimonies of the plaintiffs/Appellants witnesses, expunging Exhibits A5 and A6, and attached no evidential value to Exhibits A1, A2, A3, A4, A7, A8, A9, A10, A11, A12, A13, C and C1 properly admitted and marked docu…</span></li></ol>