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(2022) JELR 110832 (CA)

Court of Appeal 19 Jan 2022 Nigeria
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Suit Number:CA/A/356/2019
Judges:Stephen Jonah Adah JCA Mohammed Mustapha JCA Kenneth Ikechukwu Amadi JCA
Counsel:G. Ofodile Okafor SAN for the Appellant; Ifeanyi Okpor Esq. for the 1st & 2nd Respondent; P. I. N. Ikwueto SAN with Alex Ukwueze for the 3rd & 4th Respondent; Zekeri Garba for the 6th Respondent.

MOHAMMED MUSTAPHA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the judgment of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in suit No: FCT/HC/CV/472/2018 delivered on the 3rd of April, 2019 and presided by Hon Justice H. B. Yusuf. 

In granting the reliefs sought by the 1st and 2nd Respondents in the amended originating summons the trial Court ordered the payment of:

"a. 1st Respondent a sum of $28,620,000.00 forthwith (Twenty Eight Million, Six Hundred and Twenty Thousand Dollars). 

b. 2nd Respondent a sum of $71,380,000.00 (Seventy One Million, Three Hundred and Eighty Thousand Dollars) 

c. Interest of 10% on the sum of $100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Million Dollars). 

See pages 628 to 648 of the Record of Appeal Vol. II. 

Dissatisfied the appellant appealed on three grounds by a notice of appeal filed on the 5th of April, 2019; the record of appeal in two volumes was transmitted on the 25th of April, 2019 and the supplementary record filed on the 6th of November, 2019 was…

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