SMITHLINK BEECHAM & ANOR V. PREX LIMITED

SIDI DAUDA BAGE, J.C.A (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of Okeke J, sitting at the Federal High Court in Abuja, delivered on 27th September 2002.

The facts that led to this appeal are as follows:

The 1st Respondent as plaintiff filed this suit seeking in the main a perpetual injunction to restrain the defendants from producing, reproducing, adapting, broadcasting and or transmitting in any medium the ''GELETE'' Television Game programmes, damages for the infringement of the copyright to the said ''GELETE'' on the footing of the general damages in the sum of N25,000,000.00 (Twenty-five Million Naira) and in the alternative an account of the profit made by the defendants from the said infringement and payment of the amount found to be due on the taking of such account and costs of the action.

At the conclusion of evidence by all parties written addresses were ordered and adopted by the parties on the 30th of May 2001, judgment was later delivere…