“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 THE CASE OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA V BODUNDE

LegalpediaElectronic Citation: LER [2018]SC. 736/2015