JOHN INYANG OKORO, JSC (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja Judicial Division, coram M. L. Garba, M. A. Danjuma, and T. O. Awotoye, JJCA, delivered on the 7th day of May, 2018, which dismissed the appellant's appeal from the judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, delivered on the 10th day of January, 2017, which had recognized for enforcement, an Arbitral Award delivered on the 17th day of January, 2014, in the Arbitral Proceedings between the parties.
Following a consultancy service agreement between the respondent and Bayelsa State Government, entered into on the 25th day of August, 2011, and an addendum to the agreement executed on the 15th day of September, 2011, the Respondent recovered funds owed the Bayelsa State Government by various Federal Government Agencies such as the Debt Management Office (DMO), Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal Commission (FMAFC) and the Department of Petroleum Resour…