prescribed under this Constitution and has subsequently taken the Oath of Allegiance and the Judicial Oath prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution. The interpretation given to Section 254(1) of the 1979 Constitution is to the effect that a Judge elevated to a higher Court had ceased to be a Judge of the Court from which he was elevated and had, by that appointment therefore, been deprived of the jurisdiction to conclude the hearing of the – case before him at the Court from where he was elevated. In the unanimous judgment of this Court, delivered on Friday, 17th July, 2009, in OUR LINE LTD v. SCC (NIG) LTD the point was poignantly made in the opinions of Mohammed, JSC (who delivered the lead judgment) at pages 406 – 407 33