In recognizing customary arbitration, Nigerian courts have also recognized the paranormal dimensions of the customary arbitration process. Specifically Nigerian courts have recognized the resort to traditional oaths such as juju swearing and the consultation of oracles and fortune tellers as legitimate forms of customary arbitration. Whatever doubt that existed with regard to these forms of customary arbitration has been resolved by the Supreme Court in the recent case of Onyenge v Ebere. 53 In order to resolve a dispute over the pledge of a piece of land the disputing parties took the matter to a juju priest of the ‘Akpam Juju’ in Obuzo in Asa Local Government Area of Abia State. The party that asserted that the land was a pledge was ordered by the juju priest to swear to an oath of a juju to be provided by the other party who asserted otherwise. The other party refused to swear to abide by this decision but rather summoned the party asserting the pledge before a foreign juju “Ogwugwu Akpu” of Okija in Anambra State. The juju was brought down from Okija to Asa and placed on the land in dispute. The party asserting the pledge took the oath and survived the customary one year of oath taking and celebrated the one year of survival in compliance with the custom of Asa-Ukwu people. By their custom the party that survived the oath-taking became entitled to the possession of the land in dispute. The other party asserted that the survival of the oath was not conclusive because the succesful party did not enter the land and that the Okija juju priest had stated that the oath taking party will not be harmed if they do not enter the land. Anxious to enforce the terms of the arbitration because the losing party refused to leave the land an action was commenced at the Ukwa Customary Court that they were entitled to the piece of land and perpetual injunction. Plaintiffs were awarded judgment by the Ukwa Customary Court. Ultimately the matter got to the Supreme Court Niki Tobi JSC who read the lead judgment of the Court said: