₦airaland Forum

daveP:
Are you saying you may be a future 1st lady of this country?

never can tell, never can.....

bellville:
Wow! The Murtala assassination was '76 I guess. You don't belong to this generation o.

DIVINE78:
I'm happy to know the VP started from a humble beginning.
Bastard.. Corona schools na humble beginning? As always, wailers are sad.

DIVINE78:
I'm happy to know the VP started from a humble beginning.
As always, wailers are sad.

metronaija:
[img]http://1.bp..com/-dMynimJaojA/VlYH46nsM3I/AAAAAAAHckA/kcZUED5Veuc/s1600/CUq3WXCUEAAU5lD.jpg[/img]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (1st from left - front row) as a pupil of Corona School.

http://www.metronaija.com/2015/11/photo-of-vp-osinbajo-as-pupil-of-corona.html

cc: lalasticlala

Caracta:
First Lady? Naaah. No political interest.

Firefire:
Can this photo change the fact that Nigerians are suffering untold hardship since May 29th 2015 ?

coolitempa:
I am seriously getting old.....went to corona over fifteen years ago......... ....I need to retire from exchanging ideas with miscreants on Nairaland..

DIVINE78:
I'm happy to know the VP started from a humble beginning.
As always, wailers are sad.

daveP:
what if he just happens to be called to run?

(emphasis on 'you never can tell....')

well a lot can happen anyway

rusher14:
As much as I like him I'm only concerned he's remained the same size since then.

TeeOw:
he comes from a rich family?

jaymejate:
Seriously he went to Corona?
I've always wanted to go to that school

Please do they Study Geology

coolitempa:
I am seriously getting old.....went to corona over fifteen years ago......... ....I need to retire from exchanging ideas with miscreants on Nairaland..

maupe:
When did Corona become a school for the masses. Have you forgotten that Corona was THE SCHOOL of the 90's. You should go and research what corona meant to Nigerians then.

mfm04622:
How is Corona School related to humble beginning? Only children of the rich attend that school

Reference:
Just got outa nursery school then. Mum taught in Unilag Staff School whipping the likes of Kola Abiola and his sisters into shape before she moved in with me at Corona later becoming assistant headmistress. Only then did I stop crying in the mornings. But Corona was there long before me so I sure as hell donot know the VP. The picture is not clear enough to determine when it was taken but any browning photo must be 60's way, way before me. And I wasn't as old as those kids by the time I left.

In The Supreme Court of Nigeria
On Friday, the 8th day of March, 2002
Suit No: SC.48/1997

Before Their Lordships
MICHAEL EKUNDAYO OGUNDARE ……. Justice of the Supreme Court
UTHMAN MOHAMMED ……. Justice of the Supreme Court
ALOYSIUS IYORGYER KATSINA-ALU ……. Justice of the Supreme Court
UMARU ATU KALGO ……. Justice of the Supreme Court
AKINTOLA OLUFEMI EJIWUNMI ……. Justice of the Supreme Court

Between

1. DR. O. O. SOFOLAHAN
(Suing as a parent and the next friend of Olabosipo Sofolahan)
2. MRS. SEYI SULE
(Suing as a parent and the next friends of Tunde Sule, Tife Sule and Toyosi Sule) Appellants

And

1. CHIEF MRS. L. I. FOWLER
(For herself and on behalf of the members/Trustees of the Corona School Trust Council)
2. CORONA SCHOOLS TRUST COUNCIL Respondents

COUNSEL:
T. O. G. Animashaun, Esq. – For the Appellants.
H. A. Balogun, [Mrs.] (with her, O. Idemudia, Esq.) – For the Respondents.

JUDGMENT:

KATSINA-ALU, J.S.C.: (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is from a judgment of the Court of Appeal (Lagos Division) delivered on the 11th day of December, 1996. The court declared the action instituted by the appellants as incompetent and struck it out. The appellants have now appealed to this court, raising five issues for determination as follows:

"1. Whether the appellants had the requisite locus standi to institute proceedings against the respondents?

2. Whether the appellants followed the proper practice and procedure in suing as next friends in the Lagos High Court.

3. Whether the Federal Attorney-General is the only person able to properly institute an action as contained in the claims before the Lagos State High Court?

4. Whether the Court of Appeal, could properly make a determination of the nature of the trust of the 2nd respondent and the nature of the contract of education on an interlocutory appeal.

5. Whether the court of first instance could properly grant an order for interim injunction during the hearing of motion on notice for interlocutory injunction on the facts before the court."

I shall endeavour to deal with issues 1,2 and 3 together. The resolution of those issues will determine whether there is need to go into issues 4 and 5. But first let me state the relevant facts of this case. The facts which led to this appeal are a bit complex but I find that the court below lucidly narrated them. I shall have to rely on those facts as they appear in the transcript. On 2nd August, 1995, the plaintiffs/respondents took out a writ of summons against the defendants at the High Court of Lagos. Following that, the plaintiffs/respondents (to whom I shall refer hereinafter as the appellants) obtained an ex-parte order of interim injunction made by Alabi, J., against the defendants/respondents (to whom I shall refer hereinafter as the respondents) on 9th August, 1995, restraining the respondents from 'intimidating, harassing, expelling or threatening to expel or in any way victimising and/or disturbing or interfering with any of the pupils of Corona Nursery/Primary School, Gbagada from academic and/or extra-curriculum activities of Corona School or disturbing the legal rights, ingress and egress of the parents of the children of Corona School, particularly members of the PTA pending the determination of the motion on notice."

Leave was granted to the appellants to sue as next friends of their wards. Leave was also given to them to "sue for and on behalf of the class of parents of Corona Nursery/Primary Schools at Apapa, Gbagada/Victoria Island/Ikoyi who oppose the arbitrary increase in fees and the management and maladministration of trust funds." These orders were made in line with five out of six prayers sought for in the motion ex-parte. The other prayer to restrain the respondent from increasing the school fees of N13,600.00 and N21,500.00 payable by Corona Nursery School pupils respectively a session for the 1995/96 session was adjourned to be heard later inter partes......

(f) The proposed increase in school fees for the 1995 session from N13,600 to N33,500 and from N21,500 to N41,500 per pupil for the nursery and primary schools respectively cannot be afforded by the pupils and if the increase are effected, the pupils will be constrained to leave the schools with irreparable damage to them....

.....Now to issues 1,2 and 3. It is clear that the appellants' position is that the Corona Schools are run as charitable educational institutions upon a trust which was created by the constitution of the 2nd respondent. It is said that the schools are expected to provide qualitative education on a non-profit making scheme. It was principally upon that plank, as it appears to me, that the action was brought to seek the various reliefs stated in writ of summons. The court below considered the applicable law to charities and charitable organisations. It came to the conclusion that there is no indigenous law and that the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853 of England applied as part of the received law in this country. It also found that the Charitable Trustees Incorporation Act, 1872 provided for charity commissioners vested with certain powers and duties in regard to charitable organisations.

Under the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853 the said commissioners were empowered to act in the case of any charity to promote its work assigned to it by its trust objects. It was also to ensure that no proceedings shall be entertained or proceeded with in any court unless authorised by the commissioners or taken by themselves or by the Attorney-General. As already said, under the 1853 and 1872 Acts the charity commissioners were vested with certain powers and duties. Similar powers and duties are now vested in the Corporate Affairs Commission under the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990 (the CAMA). Section 673(1) of CAMA recognises the incorporation of trust body for educational and charitable purpose, among others. The question is the law to regulate the way they function. That is to be found in the Charitable Trusts Act, 1853 see Halsbury's Laws of England, 3rd edition, vol. 3, pp. 551 -552.

"We respectively (sic) submit that in determining the locus standi of the appellants the Court of Appeal had no need to rely on antiquated English statutes as part of the applicable received law in Nigeria notably the Charitable Trustees Act, 1853 and the Charitable Trustees Incorporation Act, 1872. The applicable law is contained in section 6(6)(b) of the constitution as interpreted by various decided Supreme Court cases all of which are binding on the Court of Appeal under the principle of stare decisis. "

Under that act, the role of charity commissioners (now to be read as Corporate Affairs Commission in Nigeria) and that of the Attorney-General as regards proceedings on charity matters is spelt out....

In the result, I find no merit whatsoever in this appeal. I accordingly dismiss it with N10,000.00 costs in favour of the respondents against the appellants. I will add here that it is desirable for the National Assembly to make indigenous laws on trusts and charities as they have exclusive jurisdiction to do so under item 10 of the exclusive legislative list in the 1999 constitution.http://lawaspire.com.ng/2014/08/dr-o-o-sofolahan-anor-v-chief-mrs-l-i-fowler-anor/

Caracta:
Well...tough call definitely. Hopefully, Nigeria would be better and healthier by then and honest persons won't get killed for not participating in corrupt practices.