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,
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