as the High Court of the latter State also lacked extraterritorial jurisdiction, in respect of the matters pending in the High Court of the former State, outside its area of jurisdiction and authority. The lower court acknowledged the extancy or subsistence of the decision in OGBUNYINYA v. OKUDO ((supra) and OUR LINE LTD v. S.C.C NIGERIA LTD (supra). In its judgment, at pages 2104 – 2105 of vol.4 of the Record, it made effort to distinguish the two cases from the instant case, thus – The cases OGBUNYINYA v. OKUDO and OUR LINE LIMITED v. SCC NIGERIA (supra) –, were decided on the state of the law at the material time and in the absence of any statutory provisions, such as Section 396(7) of ACJA, allowing, 16

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