MTN NIGERIA COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED V. TATACOMS INTERGRATED RESOURCES LIMITED

PHILOMENA MBUA EKPE, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Respondent as Plaintiff in the lower Court, brought an action against the Appellant/Defendant claiming the sum of N259,300,000.00 (two hundred and fifty-nine million, three hundred thousand naira only) as special and general damages for breach of contract.

At the end of the trial, the learned trial Judge on the 18th day of March, 2014 found in favour of the Respondent for the sum of N20,000,000 (twenty million naira) as damages and the sum of N20,000 (twenty thousand naira) as cost against the Appellant. The Appellant being dissatisfied with the said judgment brought this appeal. The notice of appeal is dated the 24th day of March, 2014. The facts that culminated in this appeal are thus:

The Appellant, Mtn Nigeria Communications Ltd a Telecommunications Service Company hired the services of the Respondent, Tatacoms Integrated Resources Ltd to render services to the general public. The parties entered into an agreement which…