SUPREME COURT & COURT OF APPEAL DECISIONS (13665)
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HELD:
"It is settled law that before a Court can assume jurisdiction over any cause or matter all of the following conditions must co-exist:
HELD:
"it needs be reiterated that jurisdiction is the authority that a Court has to decide matters that are litigated before it, or to take cognisance of matters presented in a formal way for its decision.
HELD:
"The law is that a Court of law, particularly the lower Court and this Court, has a statutory duty to consider and decide on all issues raised and submitted to it for determination.
HELD:
"...the law is settled that the operation of limitation law is stayed while parties are in Court over the cause of action.
HELD:
"Instances tending to an abuse of Court process, as laid down by the Supreme Court, include the following;
HELD:
"It is clear to me, that the issue bordering on a Court's jurisdictional competence, dated back to the oft-cited locus classicus case of Madukolu vs. Nkemdilim (1962) 1 All NLR 587. It has been variously described as the threshold of the power of a Court to adjudicate over a matter submitted before it.