<p><strong> OGBUINYA JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): </strong> This appeal sprang from the decision of the High Court of Kwara State, Omu-Aran, coram, M. Abdulgafar, J., in suit No. KWS/ON/20/2008 and delivered on 24 March 2010, in which the respondents’ claims were granted. By way of factual narration, the record and processes reveal that the word, “Oro”, a noun, is friendly to litigations. This time around, the Kwara State Government (hereinafter abridged to “ the Government”) published a Legal Notice No. 483 in Gazette No. 24, volume 11 of 1 December 1977, that the respondents’ people were entitled to be known and addressed as “ Oro” without any prefix or suffix added to it. Before then, the respondents’ town, one of the nine towns that make up Oro land in Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, went by the name Otun-Oro. The other eight constituent villages: Afin-Oro, Agbeola-Oro, Irebode-Oro, Idado-Oro, Iludun-Oro, Oke-Ola Oro, Ijomu-Oro and Okerimi- Oro, were patently peeved by the conte…</p>