3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
WOMEN IN BUSINESS COURT CASES
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO NIGERIAN CASES ON WOMEN IN BUSINESS CONNECTED TO CHILDREN & WOMEN
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Women in Business – Witchcraft connected cases – Recovery of debt for goods sold on credit – Invocation of juju by alleged creditor on the money before handing same over – Fight and death arising therefrom – How treated |
| ANEKWE V. NWEKE |
Women and Security/Justice Administration/Crime/Witchcraft – Women in Business – Murder of Aged farmer found macheted to death and left in muddy waters – Poor Police work and prosecutorial abilities in murder trials – Effect – Aged mother accused of ‘killing’ daughter-in-law by means of witchcraft – How treated |
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Women and Justice Administration/Human Right/Property Rights – Woman whose arrest, detention, and prosecution was procured by legal practitioner with whom she had a land dispute – Woman procured by a person to frame another woman for diabolical/witchcraft activities – Malicious prosecution action arising therefrom – How treated by court |
| ERIYAMREMU V THE QUEEN |
Children and Security/Right to life – Women and witchcraft – killed by grandmother for juju rituals – Extra-judicial killing done on the instructions of her ‘mates in witch-craft’ – Whether mental infirmity suffered by grandmother amounts to legal insanity or lack of capacity to plead – How treated |
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Women and customary practices/healthcare/justice administration – Murder/Mob-killing of elderly sick woman who was banished from her family home on an account of protracted illness and allegation practising witchcraft – Assault of a young woman trying to evacuate on her back her very sick and starved mother accused of witchcraft – How treated |
| IHONRE V. THE STATE |
Belief in witchcraft – Where it leads to the commission in crime – Proper treatment of by court – When would give rise to valid defences – Implication for justice administration |
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Security of children – Brutal murder of young girl accused of witchcraft by allegedly causing her mother’s death via snake bite |
| MUHAMMEDU GADAM V THE QUEEN |
Women and Witch-craft – Security of aged persons from extra-judicial killing – Murder – Woman aged 80 killed on the belief of having cast a spell on accused person’s wife leading to the wife’s death as a result of an infection caused by miscarriage – When trial court found that condition of deceased wife was bona fide attributed to witchcraft – How treated |
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DISABILITY:- Witchcraft – Persons living with hunchback – Target for ritual purposes – Implication for justice administration |
| UGBO V. THE QUEEN |
Security of homestead and neighborhood – A man killed by third party while he was lying down outside his house with wife and baby – Assailant’s belief that he was mysteriously poisoned by deceased in the night by calling out his name – How treated |
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Children and Customary Law – Twin-killing – Killing of twin babies by father – Customary abhorrence of twins – Participation of women and general community – Whether an acceptable defence to charge of murder – Attitude of court thereto “An old woman Nwofuko Edene, whom the Chief Justice described as “a shrivelled, bent, and almost blind old woman, barely capable of walking” said the applicant came and called her in her house and told her that his wife had delivered twins. She went with him to his house and saw the twins. She said that the applicant put the two babies, crying, in a pot, carried it, and asked her and one other old woman Ugbala Ago, to follow him. After they had gone a long distance the applicant went into the bush and after some time returned without the pot and the babies, and they returned home. The babies have not been seen again since.” Per Mbanefo F.J |
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Women and Murder – Women and witchcraft – Brutal murder of mother accused of witchcraft poisoning producing stomach-ache in her assailant/son – How treated |
| YESUFU V. THE STATE | Women and Security/Murder – Witchcraft cases – Elderly woman killed because of belief that she was responsible for negative misfortunes which befell her accuser – How treated |
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