<p>OGUNTADE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellant was the plaintiff before the Area Court of Vom/Kuru, Grade 1 sitting at Vom and the respondent the defendant. It was a dispute over the ownership of a farmland at Dogan Gaba in Plateau State. The Area Court gave judgment in favour of the respondent on 4/9/90. The appellant brought an appeal against the judgment before the Plateau State Customary Court of Appeal. On 16/3/94, the Customary Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal by the appellant.</p><p> The appellant has brought a further appeal before this Court on one ground of appeal which reads:- </p><p> &quot;1. The whole proceedings before the Customary Court of Appeal amount to a nullity having regard to Section 247 of the 1979 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended&quot;.</p><p> In the appellant&#x27;s brief the appellant&#x27;s counsel identified the issue for determination in the appeal as the following:-</p><p> &quot;Whether in view of S. 247(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nige…</p>