Law of Contract: Vitiating Factors and Discharge
ICAN Business Law

QUESTION 1 Bisi & Sons Nigeria Ltd, a cocoa merchant firm in Ondo State, entered into a written contract with Eko Haulage Ltd to transport 1,000 bags of premium cocoa beans from Akure to the Apapa Po…

QUESTION 2 Elder Alabi (78 years old), a retired executive director of Zenith Energy Plc, lives alone and suffers from mild dementia. He relies entirely on his spiritual advisor, Pastor Barnabas of t…

QUESTION 3 Mallam Garba, an uneducated sugarcane farmer in Kaduna State who can neither read nor write in English, was approached by Mr. Jude, an agent of Arewa Sugar Refineries Plc. Mr. Jude present…

Which of the following circumstances will NOT operate to discharge a contract under the doctrine of frustration under the Nigerian Law of Contract?

The process whereby an existing contract is discharged by substituting it with a brand new contract, either between the same original parties or involving a new party with the consent of all parties c…

Under the Nigerian Law of Contract, where a party enters into a contract as a direct result of actual physical violence or a threat of physical violence to their person, what is the legal status of th…

Grace, a young parishioner, transferred title to her inherited landed property valued at ₦50,000,000 to her spiritual leader, Pastor James, for a nominal payment of ₦100,000 following persistent inten…

Chief Okon, an illiterate land owner who speaks no English, signed a deed conveying his title in land to Tunde. Tunde fraudulently misrepresented the document as a mere temporary tenancy permit. In a …

Kemi entered into a contract to hire a hall from Babatunde in Lagos for a public exhibition at an agreed price of ₦2,000,000. Kemi paid an advance deposit of ₦500,000. Two days before the event, the h…

Chukwuma contracted to supply 1,000 bags of cement to Danladi on July 30. On July 10, Chukwuma explicitly informed Danladi that he would not deliver the cement on the agreed date. Which of the followi…