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THE GOV. OF CROSS RIVER STATE & ANOR
V.
NTA & ORS

(2013) JELR 36122 (CA)

Court of Appeal 23 Jan 2013 Nigeria
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- The case arose from a suit before the Federal High Court, Calabar wherein Federal Government agencies sought declarations of title to land in Calabar, orders nullifying the revocation and sale of the land by Cross River State Government t

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Suit Number:CA/C/112/2010
Judges:MOHAMMED LAWAL GARBA Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria JOSEPH TINE TUR Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria ONYEKACHI A. OTISI Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria
Counsel:O. E. Asuquo, Esq. State Counsel 1, Ministry of Justice, Calabar For Appellant Etim Effiom, Esq. for the 1st and 2nd Plaintiffs/Respondents For Respondent

ONYEKACHI A. OTISI, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the Ruling of the Federal High Court, Calabar. The 1st and 2nd respondents herein as the 1st and 2nd plaintiffs had commenced Suit No FHC/CA/CS/21/2007 at the Federal High Court, Calabar by Writ of Summons filed on 21st March, 2007, in which they claimed as follows:

1. A Declaration that the Survey Plan Area of 7.139 hectares of land occupied by the Plaintiffs along Murtala Mohammed Highway, Block N - Part of Northern Industrial Estate, Ikot Ansa, Calabar, and since 1st April, 1976, is the bona fide property of the Federal Government of Nigeria, nay the Plaintiffs.

2. An Order that the purported revocation of part of the Plaintiffs' land by the first and second Defendants, for the use and benefit of the third, fourth and fifth Defendants, which Revocation Notice was published in the Nigerian Chronicle of Monday, May 29, 2006 at page 17, is contrary to the Nigerian Television Authority Act, Cap N. 136…

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