Queen v. District Officer and Anor. (Ex-parte Eti Atem) (1961)All NLR 55 (Reprint) where Ademola, CJF (of the blessed memory) put it pointedly thus at page 58: “Now it is clear that it is of the utmost importance that the court should act to prevent an injustice being done when the remedy sought is within its powers to grant. This to my mind, is one of such matters in which the court should act. The High Court has an inherent powers, unfettered by statute, to control inferior tribunals in a supervisory capacity. Such control is by means of certiorari to keep the inferior tribunal within the law, within bounds and within such jurisdiction as the legislature deemed fit to confer upon it.” See also the case of Agwuegbo v. Kagoma (2000) FWLR (Pt. 19) 511, (2000) 14 NWLR (Pt. 687) 252 at 269, a judgment of the Court of Appeal, Kaduna Division in which I affirmed the order of certiorari issued by the High Court of Justice of Kaduna State quashing the proceedings, judgment conviction and sentence and other orders made by the Kaduna Rent Tribunal.
— M. Mohammed JSC. The State v. Monsurat Lawal (SC. 80/2004, 15 Feb 2013)