OKORO JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court ofAppeal, Calabar Division, delivered on 5 December 2005. In the said judgment, the lower court, in a unanimous decision allowed the respondent’s (as the appellants) appeal against the judgment of the High Court of Cross River State, and dismissed the appellant’s cross-appeal. I shall briefly state the facts which gave rise to this appeal. The appellant as the plaintiff sued the defendants (now the respondents) over a petition written by the 1st to 5th defendants in which he claimed that they falsely and maliciously published defamatory materials concerning him. The alleged offensive publication was contained in a letter titled “protest by the Big Qua, the Idundu and the Ediba clans relating to claims to Ediba Swamp and Marsh lands” addressed to HRH, Ndidem U. Iso, the Ndidem of the Quas. The said petition was admitted in evidence as exhibit D. The petition was sparked off by a fracas on 21…
EKONG
V.
OTOP
(2014) JELR 56895 (SC)
Supreme Court 6 Jun 2014 Nigeria
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BriefBot Summary
- The appellant sued the respondents (chiefs of various Qua clans) for libel, alleging that three documents (exhibits D, F, and H) relating to a clan dispute over swampland ownership contained false and defamatory statements about his invol
Case Details
Suit Number:SC.127/2006
Judges:WALTER SAMUEL NKANU ONNOGHEN JSC (Presided) SULEIMAN GALADIMA JSC BODE RHODES-VIVOUR JSC KUMAI BAYANGAKA’AHS JSC JOHN INYANG OKORO JSC (Read the Lead Judgment)
Counsel:Essien H. Andrew Esq. - for the Appellant.
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O. O. Adebayo Esq, (with him, Eunice Agbor, (Miss) - for the Respondents. C
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