PETER OLABISI IGE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Lead Ruling): When this appeal came up on 12th day of March, 2015 for the hearing of Appellants' Motion on Notice to compile and transmit record of appeal dated and filed on 24th day of November, 2014 E. F. NJEMANZE Esq. for the Appellants informed this Court he was just served with a Counter Affidavit against the Motion that morning by Learned Counsel to the 1st Respondent N. C. Uzochukwu Esq. challenging the competence of the Notice of Appeal initiating this appeal.
Uzochukwu Esq. for the 1st Respondent confirmed the service of Counter Affidavit against the hearing of the Appellant's application to compile and transmit record.
He informed this Court that the gravamen of their objection is that the Notice of Appeal filed by the Appellant's on 23rd day of December, 2010 was not signed by a Legal Practitioner as required by the Legal Practitioners Act and Supreme Court cases. He contended that the said Notice of Appeal is a nullity. He relied o…