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LEADER AND COMPANY LIMITED
V.
ABUJA INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED

(2024) JELR 113001 (CA)

Court of Appeal 29 Nov 2024 Nigeria
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- The dispute arose from a tenancy relationship concerning Plot 702, Cadastral Zone A00, Central Business District, Abuja, with a succession of tenancy agreements, the latest being dated 14 December 2018; the landlord (Respondent) sued the

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Suit Number:CA/ABJ/CV/518/2022
Judges:ADEBUKUNOLA ADEOTI BANJOKO, JCA PETER CHUDI OBIORAH, JCA OKON EFRETI ABANG, JCA
Counsel:DR. FRANK IKE CHUDE, MCIARB (UK) FOR THE APPELLANT. OJONIMI S. APEH, ESQ FOR THE RESPONDENT
Location:Abuja

ADEBUKUNOLA ADEOTI BANJOKO, JCA (DELIVERING THE LEADING JUDGMENT): This Appeal is against the Judgment delivered by Honourable Justice JUDE O. ONWUEGBUZIE of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on the 28th Day of April, 2022 in Suit No:FCT/HC/CV/1064/2021, seen at Pages 240-253 of the Record of Appeal. The facts of this Case are that the Appellant and the Respondent were into Tenancy relationship, with the Respondent as the Landlord and Appellant as the Tenant. They both executed a Tenancy agreement dated the 31st day of August 2009, which had set out their terms of engagement in respect of a property, which is situated at Plot 702, Cadastral Zone A00, Central Business District, Abuja. The Tenancy Relationship was in regard to a Two-Year Term Certain.

However, upon an alleged Breach of the Terms of the Agreement, the Respondent as Claimant commenced an action for recovery of the premises before the FCT. High Court in Suit FCT/HC/CV/568/2012, against the Appellant as…

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