“The said notice of appeal, having been filed out of time and without an application for extension of time is incompetent. The law is trite that an incompetent notice of appeal is ab initio void, incurably bad and cannot even be regularized as you cannot put something on nothing. See Mcfoy v. UAC (1962) AC 152”. 

PER J.I. OKORO, J.S.C in FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA V ADEYANJU BODUNDE LER [2018]SC.736/2015  https://legalpediaonline.com/christian-soronnadi-anor-vs-aruji-durugo/