This is an appeal against the direction of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee made on the 4th day of April 2006 striking off the name of the appellant from the roll as a legal practitioner in Nigeria. The appellant being dissatisfied with the said direction filed a Notice of Appeal on the 27thday of April 2006 against the Direction.

The Appeal came up for hearing on the 22nd October 2013 when this Court suo motu raised the issue of jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to entertain an appeal directly from the decision of Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee. The Court directed the parties to address it on the issue of whether or not the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to entertain appeal from the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee in view of the recent decision of this Court in Aladejobi v Nigerian Bar Association Suit No: SC.121/2011 delivered on the 12th of July, 2013 and reported in (2013) LPELR - 20940 SC. The Supreme Court had held in the Aladejobi case that it is the Appeal Committee of the Body of Benchers that has jurisdiction to entertain appeal from the decision of the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee. Of note is the fact that there is no Appeal Committee of the Body of Benchers in existence.

On the 13th January, 2014 when the appeal came up for hearing on the issue of jurisdiction the Court ordered that it was necessary to get the opinion of the Attorney General of the Federation and the President of the Nigerian Bar Association and so an invitation was issued to the two Law Officers as Amicus Curiae with a view to enriching the arguments on the issue at hand.