IKONGBEH JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This appeal lies within a very narrow compass. The short question is whether there had in law been valid service of the originating processes that issued out of the trial court, i.e., the Federal High Court, sitting at Ilorin, on the appellant herein, who was one of the three persons required to answer to the respondent’s complaints before that court. Before I proceed, I think it is necessary for me to make some preliminary explanatory remarks regardingthe partiesbefore us.The appellant listed three persons as respondents before us, namely, the applicant before the trial court, whom he listed as the 1st respondent, and the 1st and 2nd respondents before that court i.e., the Nigeria Air Force and the Chief of Air Staff, whom he listed as 2nd and 3rd respondents respectively beforeus. The appellant has made no complaint whatsoever in relation to any of them in this appeal. Neither of them has challenged the ruling appealed from by the appel…
ADAMU
V.
AKUKALIA
(2006) JELR 57827 (CA)
Court of Appeal 28 Apr 2006 Nigeria
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Suit Number:CA/IL/33/05
Judges:ABOYI J. IKONGBEH JCA (Presided and Read the Lead Judgment)
TIJJANI ABDULLAHI JCA (Dissented)
HELEN MORONKEJI OGUNWUMIJU JCA
Counsel:S. T. Abubakar, Esq., (with him, S. Ipinlaiye, Esq.,) for the Appellant;
M. Adimoha, Esq., for the Respondent.
Other Citations:(2007) 4 NWLR (Pt. 1023) 64
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