ISTIFANUS THOMAS, J.C.A (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an interlocutory appeal against the ruling of R.O. Nwodo (J) sitting at Federal High Court Port Harcourt delivered on 17th May, 2006, striking out the plaintiff now appellant's suit on the basis that it had no jurisdiction. Dissatisfied with the ruling, the appellant filed on 2nd June, 2006 a Notice of Appeal containing a single ground of appeals that reads as follows.
"1.The learned trial judge erred in law by striking out the Appellant's suit on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain the subject matter of the suit' Particular of error
(i) The subject matter of the suit falls squarely within the jurisdiction of the court being a Federal High Court.
(ii) The Court being a Federal High Court has been invested by law viz Section 251 (1) (n) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and, Section 7 (1) (n) of the Federal High Court Act (chapter F. 12) with the exclusive jurisdiction t…