RECOVERY OF PREMISES IN NIGERIA BY : EDIKAN UMO EDEM, ESQ In Nigeria, there are legal frameworks which regulate the recovery of premises. These laws are: ABUJA : Comprises of The Recovery of Premises Act; The High Court Civil Procedure Rules of F.C.T.; District Court (Increase in Jurisdiction of Judges) Order 2014. LAGOS : Comprises of The High Court (Civil Procedure) Rules of Lagos State, The Tenancy Law of Lagos State (repeals the Rent Control and Recovery of Premises Law) which applies to residential and business premises in Lagos, excluding Ikeja G.R.A., Ikoyi, Apapa, Victoria Island, educational premises and emergency centres; The Recovery of Premises Law which applies to business premises within these excluded areas while the principle of common law on tenancy and recovery of premises, as well as the principles of contract applies to residential premises within the excluded areas. NOTE: Tenancy/Recovery of Premises Laws in other states sh...
ELECTION PETITION IN NIGERIA BY EDIKAN UMO EDEM, Esq., L.L.B., B.L. MEANING OF ELECTION: Election is defined by the Appellate Court in the case of ALL PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE & ANOR V. SARAKI & ANOR (2007) 17 N.W.L.R. (PT.1064) 453 as the process of choosing especially by voting. It is not just the process of choosing an actual date of election but a process that starts from nomination of candidates by political parties, i.e. goes back to the primaries of political parties. It is the democratic process of choosing those to administer the political affairs of the people. NATURE OF ELECTION PETITION : Elections are sui generis and thus are distinct, peculiar and a different character from normal civil proceedings. See BUHARI V. INEC and NWOBODO V. ONOH. The procedure for election petition is provided for in the 1999 Constitution and other specific statutes and relevant rules unlike other civil proceedings, which are regulated by the Rule...
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