CASE DIGEST - DAMAGES: GENERAL DAMAGES; DO GENERAL DAMAGES NEED TO BE SPECIFICALLY PLEADED?

NITEL TRUSTEES LIMITED (IN LIQUIDATION) & ANOR. v. SYNDICATED INVESTMENT HOLDINGS LIMITED

SUPREME COURT OF NIGERIA

(ARIWOOLA; ABBA-AJI; GARBA; JAURO; ABUBAKAR, JJ.SC)

Background Facts

Through an advertisement in This Day Newspaper of 2/5/2007, Nitel Trustees Limited (In Liquidation) and Otunba Olusola Adekanola (Liquidator of Nitel Trustees Ltd.) (the Appellants) advertised several properties for sale to the public with conditions for bid of the said properties. Syndicated Investment Holdings Limited (the Respondent) bided for property No. 44, Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos for 36.1 million Naira and deposited 10% of N36.1M with the Appellants which was subsequently reserved for the bidding.