<p style="text-align: justify"><strong><u> ABBA BELLO MOHAMMED, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): </u></strong>The Applicant brought this Motion on Notice filed on the 16th of February, 2022, seeking for the following reliefs:</p><ol><li><p style="text-align: justify">AN ORDER of this Honorable Court granting leave to the Applicant to appeal out of time against the judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja delivered by Hon. Justice O. O. Goodluck in Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/203/2009 on 9th February, 2017. </p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify">AN ORDER of this Honourable Court enlarging the time for the Applicant to appeal against the Judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja delivered by Hon. Justice O. O. Goodluck in Suit No. FCT/HC/CV/203/2009 on 9th February, 2017. </p></li><li><p style="text-align: justify">AND for such further Order or Orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances of this case.   </p></li></ol><p style="text-align: justify"> The application was predicated on the following eight grounds:</p><ol><li><p style="text-align: justify">The time provided by the rules of this Honourable Court for the Applicant to appeal the said judgment delivered by delivered…</p></li></ol>