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ABUJA INVESTMENTS COMPANY LTD. (FORMERLY ABUJA INVESTMENT AND PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD) & ORS
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SANDERTON VENTURES LIMITED & ANOR

(2022) JELR 111334 (CA)

Court of Appeal 5 May 2022 Nigeria
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Suit Number:CA/A/344/2017
Judges:STEPHEN JONAH ADAH JCA HAMMA AKAWU BARKA JCA UGOCHUKWU ANTHONY OGAKWU JCA
Counsel:M.l. Abubakar, appearing with Eucharia Ezeani for the Appellants; B.O. Akinseye-George (Mrs.), with O. Okeke for the 1st Respondent; Ikeme Ekwere-Bello (ACSC) FMOJ with O.A. Halliday (SC) for the 2nd Respondent.
Location:Abuja

HAMMA AKAWU BARKA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appeal is against the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division, presided by the Honorable Justice A. R. Mohammed in suit with no. FHC/ABJ/CS/475/14, between 1. Abuja Investments Company Ltd. (Formerly Abuja Investment and Property Development Company Ltd.), 2. Honorable Minister, Ministry of Federal Capital Territory, 3. Federal Capital Development Authority and 4. Attorney General of the Federation delivered on the 28th of April, 2017 wherein the Court by its ruling located at page 894 of the record reasoned and thereby held that:

"It should also be noted that since the 1st Defendant is now relying on the judgment of this Court to contend that the present suit is an abuse of Court process, the conclusion is that the 1st defendant cannot avoid the orders of this Court for the parties to submit to arbitration. As for the contention of the Plaintiff that the basis of this suit is the "Technical Panel Repo…

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