Facts:

The respondent, at the Warri High Court of Delta State brought a suit against the appellant for special and general damages arising out of an alleged breach of contract for ten million United States dollars. The parties filed and exchanged pleadings. The appellant, after the exchange of pleadings, brought an application praying inter alia for an order dismissing the respondent’s action for disclosing no reasonable cause of action and for an order striking out the respondent’s suit for lack of jurisdiction of the court to entertain same, as according to the appellant the matter was an admiralty matter, outside the jurisdiction and competence of the State High Court.