...bsp;        A DECLARATION that the purported notional appointment of the Claimant to the position of General Manager from June 2016 to April 2021 vides letter Ref: TN/HCS/04/HR/2.35/3397/ 2021 dated 18th August, 2021 is unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional, invalid for being contrary to the 1st Defendant's Conditions of Service of Officers 2016. 5.         An Order of the Honourable Court directing the immediate reinstatement of Claimant to the s ...

...the need to proceed for an orthopaedic treatment for at least three months. The Claimant alleged that one of the members of staff was designated to the Area Command Police Headquarters, Otukpo, Benue State to obtain police extract to process his leave as advised. 3. The Claimant alleged that immediately after he proceeded on the orthopaedic treatment; the Defendant stopped asking after his welfare and also stopped paying his salary; that when he could not pay/afford the medical bills, he went f ...

... Article 5.3 of the 1st Defendant's Staff Policy Hand book, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th  Defendants acting together or individually could lawfully and validly issue an indefinite suspension letter to the Claimant as a member of Board of Trustee and the National Director of the 1st Defendant without validly obtaining the approval of the Regional and International Office which the Claimant reports directly to. 3.     Whether having regards to Article 5.3 of the 1st ...

... Defendant did not pay when it terminated the Claimant’s employment on 21 September 2023 by letter purportedly dated 10 August 2023. ii.         N3,500,000 (Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Naira) being one month salary in lieu of notice which the Defendant ought to have paid to the Claimant when it terminated the Claimant’s employment on 21 September 2023 by letter purportedly dated to 10 August 2023. iii.       ...

...ntiff through their letters of March 3, 2023 and May 3, 2023 and reiterated by 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants’ letter of May 22, 2023, does not amount to arrogating and appropriating to themselves the exercise of judicial powers which they do not have in breach of Section 6 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). iii.       WHETHER the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Defendants’ action of coercing, instigating, intimidating and bu ...

...s a subsisting Lecturer in the employment of the Defendants from April, 2017 - May, 2023 and still counting which thereto violates, and are likely to further violates the proprietary right(s) financial rights of the Claimant to salaries and allowances, and denial to freely access, collect and make use of his legally earned wages to be wrongful, illegal, null and void and devoid of constitutional principles and against the Rule of Law. 3.         An Orde ...

...e Federation against the 1st and 2nd Defendants/Respondents. 3.   A DECLARATION that the Administrative/Disciplinary panel set-up by the 4th Defendants/Respondents on the prompting of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Defendants/Respondents against the Claimant's/Applicant on the 26th of January, 2021 and the 9th of February, 2021 against the rules (sic) of laws makes such Administrative/Disciplinary panel incompetent and its decisions against the Claimant/Applicant set-aside for breach o ...

... 7. The sum of ?100,000,000.00 (One Hundred Million Naira) as general damages against the Defendant for breach of contract, unwarranted, unfair and unjust harassment of the Claimant, and for wrongful dismissal of the Claimant's appointment. 8. AN ORDER of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant from any breach of contract, acts of harassment, malicious investigation, prejudicial indictment of and against the Claimant in breach of his r ...

...– 7th Defendants from suspending or/and expelling the Claimants from membership of the 4th and 8th Defendants; 6. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court, restraining the 3rd Defendant, agents, privies, personal representatives from carrying out their planned punitive postings against the claimants as the punitive posting is aimed at frustrating the Claimants’ suits; 7. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court, restraining the 1st, 2nd and 3r ...

...ng the investigation of allegations levelled against him as Acting Chief Operating Officer of the Ogorode Generation Company, Sapele, he was not invited by the Defendant to any investigative panel or the report of the investigation made available to him in spite of his several requests. The further allegation of the Claimant is that, despite not being afforded the opportunity for his defence or the issuance of the report of its inves ...

...er alleged that she was promised that the unpaid salary for the month of October 2019 would be paid. She contends that in spite of several demands, the Defendant has refused to make payment. As a result, she engaged the services of her solicitors who wrote to the Defendant to demand for the payment of the entire N410,000.00 being owed. 3. The Claimant tendered the following documents in support of her case namely:           a.  &n ...

...d with the Originating processes, the 1st and 2nd Defendants and the 3rd Defendant filed their separate Statements of Defence. However, the Defendants also filed separate Notices of Preliminary Objection respectively filed on 13/01/2025 and 14/04/2025. The 1st and 2nd Defendants by the preliminary objection are praying for an Order of this Honourable Court for striking out/dismissing the suit for want of jurisdiction; whilst the prayer of the 3rd Defendant in the preliminary objection is ...

... Amended Joint Statement of Defence, filed by the leave of Court on 05/07/2022. Essentially, the defence advanced by the Defendants is that the recommendation of FDP of loss of seniority for the Claimant and the review of the recommendation by the Corps Legal Adviser (CLA) is not final until it is ratified by the Federal Road Safety Commission (Commission). The Defendants averred that the approval of the Commission was for the t ...

... Amended Joint Statement of Defence, filed by the leave of Court on 05/07/2022. Essentially, the defence advanced by the Defendants is that the recommendation of FDP of loss of seniority for the Claimant and the review of the recommendation by the Corps Legal Adviser (CLA) is not final until it is ratified by the Federal Road Safety Commission (Commission). The Defendants averred that the approval of the Commission was for the t ...

...not been allowed by the Defendants to resume their duties and perform their respective duties after the Covid 19 pandemic. They further alleged that except for a month’s salary paid to them, they were not paid any other salary or received any letter or communication to inform them that their employment has been terminated and also alleged that they had not been paid any entitlements and benefits accruing to them as employees. 2. Being aggrieved by the Defendants’ action, the Claiman ...

...not been allowed by the Defendants to resume their duties and perform their respective duties after the Covid 19 pandemic. They further alleged that except for a month’s salary paid to them, they were not paid any other salary or received any letter or communication to inform them that their employment has been terminated and also alleged that they had not been paid any entitlements and benefits accruing to them as employees. 2. Being aggrieved by the Defendants’ action, the Claiman ...

...;   An Order directing the Defendant to pay the Claimant the sum of $9,090.00 (Nine Thousand and Ninety United States Dollars) being earned commission due to the Claimant for business procured.  6.       An Order directing the Defendant to pay without delay the Pay as You Earn (PAYE) taxes deducted from the Claimant’s salaries but not remitted to the appropriate authority. 7.       An Order directing the Def ...

.... Such factors have been adequately captured in the written addresses of counsel for respective parties. Suffice it to state that among the principles to be borne in mind when considering an application for stay of proceedings are: (1) the action sought to be stayed must be shown not only that it might fail, but that it cannot possibly succeed or that for some reasons, it ought not to go on;  (2) the action is shown to be frivolous, vexatious or an abuse of the process of the co ...

...dgement of this Court, the Judgement Debtors filed a Notice of Appeal at the Court of Appeal on 29/10/2021, Annexure A; that the Records of Appeal were transmitted to the Court of Appeal on 08/12/2021and that the appeal has been entered as Appeal No: CA/ABJ/CV/41/2022. It was further deposed that the Judgement Debtors filed a Motion for Stay of Execution, Annexure B, but the Judgement Creditor is yet to file a Counter-Affidavit to the said Motion; that the Judgement Creditor has only file ...

...riminatory labour treatment and maltreatment meted to the Claimant and her newly born baby by the agents of the Defendant. g.   Cost of this Complaint in the sum of N1,000,000.00 (One Million Naira) only. h.    AND any other or further orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstance. Expectedly, the Defendant contested the Claimant’s claims by filing a Statement of Defence on 30/12/2022. The Claimant’s Reply and Additional Witne ...

... commenced on 30/09/2024, which is eight (8) months after the cause of action had accrued and thereby contends that the Claimant’s action is caught by the POPA having not commenced within three months of the effective date of the termination of his appointment. Annexed as Exhibit L to the Affidavit in support of Motion, is the letter of termination of Claimant’s appointment dated 22/12/2023. 4. With reference to paragraph 4 (c), (d) and (e) of the Affidavit in support of the appli ...

...t the 2nd Defendant but without him stating any alleged wrong that was committed. Counsel urged the Court to strike out the name of the 2nd Defendant in the absence of any reasonable cause of action against it. 5. On his part, counsel for the Claimant placed reliance on the case of Alhaji Abubakar Isah & Ors Vs A. A. Rano Construction Ltd [2017] LPELR 45063, and submitted that it is settled that for effective and effectual determination of a dispute in a case or suit, a proper, or desi ...

...s canvassed by learned senior counsel. 3. According to facts deposed in the Affidavit filed to support this application, particularly paragraph 3 thereof, the need by the Applicant to amend the Originating processes was essentially due to the inadvertence of the former counsel in placing some facts and documents in the processes that were initially filed by the said former counsel and also to make available some facts and documents that will further assist the Court to determine the ca ...

... a written address. Counsel argued that the instant Motion on Notice was served on the Judgement Creditor on 18/11/2024, but the Counter-Affidavit was filed on 09/12/2024 and that same was not regularized by application for extension of time. Citing the cases of Amadu Vs Imma [2018] LPELR 44927; Ebhonu Vs Ebohonu [2017] LPELR 42416; Chukwu Vs Kelechi & Ors [2023] LPELR 62213, counsel urged the Court to strike out the said Respondent’s Counter-Affidavit as same is incompetent. 5. It se ...