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OYO STATE PAPER MILLS LTD & ORS
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NIBEL CO. (NIG) LTD

(2016) JELR 33917 (CA)

Court of Appeal 26 Feb 2016 Nigeria
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- This case is an appeal against a ruling of the Federal High Court in Nigeria. - The appeal concerns a petition for the winding up of a company called Oyo State Paper Mills Limited. - The appellant filed a motion contesting the competence

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Suit Number:CA/IB/258/2013
Judges:HARUNA SIMON TSAMMANI JCA OBIETONBARA O. DANIEL-KALIO JCA NONYEREM OKORONKWO JCA
Counsel:M.B. Ganiyu, Esq. with him, Samuel Adeniji, Esq. and B.S. Ajayi, Esq. For Appellant O. A. Okunowo, Esq. For Respondent

HARUNA SIMON TSAMMANI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the Ruling of the Federal High Court, sitting at Ibadan, delivered by A. O. Adejumo-Obaseki, J (as he then was) on the 16th day of April, 2013.

By a petition for winding up of the 1st Appellant dated and filed on the 30th August, 2012, the Respondent as the petitioner sought the following reliefs:

(a) That Oyo State Paper Mills Limited be wound up by the Court under the provisions of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, Cap C20, Laws of the Federation, 2004; and

(b) For such order or other orders as the Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.

Several documents were filed along with the petition, and which petition was duly verified by an affidavit deposed to by one Alaiyeluwa Adesesan Afolorunsho Oguntayo, the Managing Director of the Petitioner/Appellant, on the 30/08/2012. See pages 1-113 of the main Record of Appeal transmitted to this Court on the 23/7/2013. However, the Appell…

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