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ODUGBEMI & ORS
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SHOBANDE & ORS

(2026) JELR 114733 (CA)

Court of Appeal 16 Jan 2026 Nigeria
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- The appellants, claiming through traditional history, sought declarations of title, perpetual injunction, and damages over land at Igbo Elere, Arepo, Ogun State; the Ogun State High Court dismissed their claims and granted the counter-cla

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Suit Number:CA/IB/77/2016
Judges:Ebiowei Tobi, JCA Kenneth Ikechukwu Amadi, JCA Binta Fatima Zubairu, JCA
Counsel:A.R. FATUNDE, with him, MRS. ADEWALE For Appellant A.A. ISIOLAOTAN - for 1st Respondent PROFESSOR AKIN IBIDAPO OBE, with him, ADEKUNLE ADIGUN - for 2nd Respondent J.O. MAFE (DLD), with him, W.A. ONAWOLE (ADCL) and A.T. FADIPE - for 3rd and 4th Respondents (MOJ) Ogun State For Respondent

EBIOWEI TOBI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Ogun State High Court delivered on 23/11/2015 by his lordship O.O. Majekodunmi J. The Appellants in this appeal where claimants in the lower Court wherein they claimed to be entitled to certificate of occupancy over the land in dispute which they described as situate and being at Igbo Elere, Arepo, Obafemi/Owode Local Government Area, Ogun State. They also claim for an order of perpetual injunction and for damages. I will now reproduce the claim as in paragraph 50 of the 3rd Amended Statement of Claim. 

(a) A declaration that the Families herein represented by the 1st – 2nd Claimants are the persons entitled to the Statutory right of Occupancy in respect of the Landed property lying, situate and being at Igbo – Elere, Arepo, Obafemi/Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State and covered by Survey Plan No. WAT/OG/52/90, dated 14th June, 1990, measuring approximately 6.828 Square Meters (16.…

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