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• EVIDENCE - CONTRADICTION IN EVIDENCE - Conditions to be satisfied before conflict or contradiction in the evidence of prosecution witness can be said to be fatal to its case

  "...It has to be reiterated that for inconsistencies in the evidence of witnesses to be fatal, the same must go to the core of the issue and the inconsistencies stated…

• EVIDENCE - CONTRADICTION IN EVIDENCE - Conditions to be satisfied before conflict or contradiction in the evidence of prosecution witness can be said to be fatal to its case

  "The position of the law is very clear and variously held by this Court that for contradictions in the evidence of witnesses for the prosecution to affect conviction, they must…

• LAND LAW – TRESPASS TO LAND – What the Plaintiff must prove to succeed in claim for trespass to land

  PIUS AMAKOR V. BENEDICT OBIEFUNA (1974-LCER-962-SC) “Generally speaking, as a claim for trespass to land is rooted in exclusive possession, all a plaintiff need to prove is that he has exclusive…

• TORT: Libel – When an Apology is required – Whether a Rejoinder can be deemed to be an apology - Need to treat a Rejoinder as an Admission of Falsity

  "The so-called 'Rejoinder' of the 14th January, 1959, is in fact an apology: it is a regretful acknowledgement of imputations having been made... That was an apology in the current…

• EVIDENCE – Corroboration – Where corroboration is Required – Need for corroborative evidence not to be a repetition of the evidence to be corroborated

  ALHAJI JIBRIN OKABICHI v. THE STATE (1975-LCER-983-SC) “The evidence that is required or regarded, as corroboration is clearly not a repetition of the evidence to be corroborated, otherwise there would…