3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
NIGERIAN CASES CONNECTED WITH WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO NIGERIAN CASES ON WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
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Widows and home security – Housing and accommodation – Sanctity of tenancy relations executed by deceased spouse – Succession of widow and family thereto – Relevant considerations |
| ADELODUN V THE QUEEN |
Women and Politics – Widowhood – Wife of politician – Husband’s grievance over election outcome – Husband killing another regardless of wife’s effort to prevent same– Effect thereof on family life |
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Women and Inheritance/Estate Administration – Widow- Mother-in-law – of deceased person – Responsibilities of Widow appointed sole executrix and trustee of deceased’s husband’s Will to uphold stipulations/trusts created under the will for the benefit of his mother/relatives – Elderly women – Aged mother of deceased person refused maintenance by his wife/widow – Right to enforce same – How treated |
| AHMED ALHADI v. ABRAHIMA ALLIE |
Women and Justice Administration – Widow – Prosecution arising from report of widow to estate administrator/accused person – Report made to police by accused as well as subsequent acts – When cane be deemed as constituting malicious prosecution – Relevant considerations thereof |
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Women and Justice Administration/Property interests – Widows – Women and interest in land – Title to land – Widow’s right – Defeat of title to land inuring to widow due to some technical rule of evidence |
| ALAWODE V SEMOH |
Children and Justice Administration – Fatal Accidents – Minors/surviving dependants (suing via Next Friends) for damages against loss occasioned by death of father – Procedural challenges – How treated |
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ALHAJI IBRAHIMAH OF SEKONDI V. MAMMA GARIBA AND OTHERS
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Women and Real Estate – Women and polygamous family – Polygamous family with absent/later deceased husband/father – Where one of the wives was husband’s former slave domestic – Expropriation of family homestead by government in exchange for financial compensation and resettlement on new land – Where wife/former slave domestic deploys compensation and some fund sent by absent husband to develop properties and other assets – Whether such properties/assets are family estate owned by its members as a polygamous family – Whether any part can be identified as belonging to the industrious woman in spite of her history which can be inherited solely by her adopted child to the exclusion of the rest of the family |
| Women and Justice Administration/Property – Widows and Administration of estate – Protection of interests in land owned by deceased husband | |
| ALLEN AND OTHERS V. JAMBO HOLDINGS |
Women/Children and Justice Administration – Widowhood – Fatal Accidents claim – Death of husband/father caused by propeller of plane he was about to board – Injunction restraining movement of the plane pending proceedings – Whether should be discharged because widow could not afford to pay her own legal cost and had to legally aided by State even where widow and her children have a good, arguable case for claiming damages on the ground that it was at least in part the fault of the pilot. |
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Widow – Security of home and property interest – Assertion and protection of interest in property acquired by deceased husband – Suit lost at High Court and Court of Appeal levels but won at the Supreme Court – Litigation costs |
| ANEKWE V. NWEKE |
Widows and Inheritance rights – Customary rules which discriminate against widow without male child for deceased husband – Security of homes and family lives – Attempt to disinherit widow and her daughters of their father’s house – How considered by courts |
| Widowhood and Justice administration – Loss of spouse due to brutal assault on same by his sibling – Defence of of insanity – How treated | |
| ASUQUO AKPAN UKPONG V. THE QUEEN |
Children/Widows and Justice Administration – Belief in witchcraft – Wife and children who were eye-witnesses to killing of husband/ father – Where accused claims to have been provoked by death of his own son which a herbalist attributed to the deceased – How treated |
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Women and Justice Administration – Widows and fatal Accident proceedings – Claim in respect of deceased/husband by wife – Assessment of damages and liability to pay same – How treated |
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