...Jurisdiction to entertain tortious claims regardless the manner so constructed. 5. This Honourable Court’s Jurisdiction to restricted and confined to the resolution of dispute CLOSELY connected and related to labour and employment. 6. That the suit is covered under the jurisdiction of the High Court of a state and not this Honourable Court. 7. The Claimant/Respondent’s statement of facts and reliefs do not disclose any reasonable cause of action within the exclusive jurisdiction o ...

... State Debt Management Office. f) Whether the Claimant is not under law an employee and remains an employee entitled to all rights, benefits and privileges of Osun State Government. g) Whether the letters of the Ministry of Finance of Osun State Government dated 12th January, 2024 and 26th March, 2024 duly signed by one Wole Ajewole for Permanent Secretary terminating or purporting to terminate the employment of the Claimant as Director General and Chief Executive Officer of Osun Stat ...

... and remains an employee entitled to all rights, benefits and privileges of Osun State Government. g) Whether the letters of the Ministry of Finance of Osun State Government dated 12th January, 2024 and 26th March, 2024 duly signed by one Wole Ajewole for Permanent Secretary terminating or purporting to terminate the employment of the Claimant as Director General and Chief Executive Officer of Osun State Debt Management Office is not ultra vires the termination powers of Osun State Governm ...

...atuity based on 1st Defendant’s workings of Claimant’s gratuity vide letter dated 29th April, 2021 from the Defendant through her Counsel. Page 3 of 24 ix. An Order compelling the 3rd Defendant to pay her pension for ten and a half years effective from 2012 to December, 2022 in accordance with the defendant’s working of Claimant’s entitlement vide Defendant’s letter dated 29th April, 2021 - Six Million, One Hundred and Seventy Nine Thousand, Nine Hundred and Seventy One Naira ...

...to the Defendants’ Amended Statement of Defence. 3. Pleadings having been settled, trial in this suit commenced on 16th July 2025 and was concluded on 25th July, 2025. The Claimant and the Defendants called one witness each. CASE OF THE CLAIMANT 4. Claimant opened his case on 16th July, 2025 when he testified as CW1, adopted his Statement on Oath as his evidence in chief and tendered 10 documents in evidence which were admitted and marked as Exhibits A to J respectively. The Claimant t ...

...Claimant's case. AN ORDER directing the defendants jointly or severally to pay to the Claimant all the outstanding salaries, allowances and all other entitlements accrued to the claimant without any deduction from 14th August, 2017, when the claimant was unlawfully dismissed from the Service of the 2nd Defendant by the 3rd Defendant till the hearing and final determination of the claimant’s case.   AN ORDER directin ...

...t. 6. AN ORDER directing the Defendants to pay to the Claimant the sum of N5,000,000.00 (Five Million Naira) as general damages. 7. The sum of N10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Naira) only being aggravated damages for libel contained in the dismissal letter dated 14th August, 2017 written by the 3rd Defendant concerning Claimant which was also circulated and/or caused to be circulated in the ministries of the 2nd and 3rd Defendants which libelous portions in the Petition reads: “FORGERY OF C ...

...ents and privies from discriminating against the Claimants/Applicants as it relates to loading of passengers, ticketing and that, the Defendants/Respondents should stop every discrimination against the Claimants/Applicants for not belonging to the Defendants/Respondents’ Union; pending the determination of this substantive suit. 4. AND FOR SUCH FURTHER OR OTHER ORDER(S) as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstance of this suit. 2. In support of the Application is 19 pa ...

...;and under the inherent jurisdiction of this Honourable Court. The Claimants/Applicants herein prayed this Honourable Court for the following Order:   AN ORDER of interlocutory Injunction restraining the Defendants/Respondents, their agents, employees or privies from attacking and preventing the Claimants/Applicants from entering Owode-Yewa Motor-Park or any&nb ...

... suit is a natural or juristic persons capable of being sued.   Whether the 1st Defendant/Applicant as listed as a party is the same as what is contained in the description column of the general form of complaint of the complainant. DEFENDANTS/APPLICANTS’ SUBMISSIONS The Defendants/Applicants’ Counsel argued issues one and two together and submitted that for a court of justice to have juri ...

...d that the Respondent herein did not comply with the provision of the NSCDC Act which is the condition precedent to be fulfilled before the institution and commencement of this action for Court to have jurisdiction. That the provisions of the law require an intending claimant against the corps to serve on the Corps a notice of intention to institute an action in the court of law, in the absence of the require notice the court is competent and court would not have jurisdiction as in the present c ...

...hat the Respondent herein did not comply with the provision of the NSCDC Act which is the condition precedent to be fulfilled before the institution and commencement of this action for Court to have jurisdiction. That the provisions of the law require an intending claimant against the corps to serve on the Corps a notice of intention to institute an action in the court of law, in the absence of the require notice the court is competent and court would not have jurisdiction as in the present case ...

...rsquo;s suit is a natural or juristic persons capable of being sued.   Whether the 1st Defendant/Applicant as listed as a party is the same as what is contained in the description column of the general form of complaint of the complainant. DEFENDANTS/APPLICANTS’ SUBMISSIONS The Defendants/Applicants’ Counsel argued issues one and two together and submitted that for a court of justice to have&nb ...

...ndent herein did not comply with the provision of the NSCDC Act which is the condition precedent to be fulfilled before the institution and commencement of this action for Court to have jurisdiction. That the provisions of the law require an intending claimant against the corps to serve on the Corps a notice of intention to institute an action in the court of law, in the absence of the require notice the court is competent and court would not have jurisdiction as in the present case. 5. In anoth ...

... a natural or juristic persons capable of being sued.   Whether the 1st Defendant/Applicant as listed as a party is the same as what is contained in the description column of the general form of complaint of the complainant. DEFENDANTS/APPLICANTS’ SUBMISSIONS The Defendants/Applicants’ Counsel argued issues one and two together and submitted that for a court of justice to have jurisdiction ...

...stitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Article 5 and 6 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, Cap A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2010. AN ORDER restraining the Respondents either by themselves or through their officers or Agents from arresting or further arresting or causing the detention or inviting the Applicant to the office of the 1st Respondent. ...

...;Defendant and cost of instituting this action.   Upon being served with the originating processes, the Defendant filed Memorandum of conditional appearance dated the 5th day of February, 2021 but filed on 11/02/2021 together with Notice of Preliminary Objection. From the record, the said preliminary objection was dismissed. Thereafter, the Defendant did not file any defence to this suit. The matter went for trial and the Defendant, despite service of seve ...

...E OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE (IITA).” 2) It is also necessary to correct or remove some words or phrases which the Claimant regards as redundant from her Complaint and Statement of Facts and to amend the Claimant’s Complaint and Statement of Facts in the manner which has been highlighted in the Claimant’s Complaint and Statement of Facts both of which documents are attached to the Affidavit in support of this motion and marked Exhibits TM1 and T'M2 respectively. 3. In support of thi ...

...o wit: 1. Whether the Statement of Facts filed by the Claimant is competent and if not, what is the effect of the incompetent process on the entire processes filed by the Claimant? 2. Whether Claimant’s suit filed on 28th January, 2022 is statute barred. 3. Whether this Honourable Court has the requisite jurisdiction to hear and determine this suit. 6. In arguing the issues, Learned Counsel submitted on issue one that the Claimant’s Statement of Fact, List of Witnesses and List of ...

...o Counter Claim dated and filed on 27th day of February, 2025. However, the Claimant did not file any reply to the Defendants’ Statement of Defence. 4. Pleadings having been settled, trial in this suit commenced on the 5 th day of March, 2025 and was concluded on the 20th day of March, 2025. The Claimant and the Defendants called one witnesses each. CASE OF THE CLAIMANT 5. On the 5th day of March, 2025, the Claimant open its case by calling one Mr. Emmanuel Omoyosoye, the Managing Di ...

...o amend her Complaints and Statement of Claim in the manner shown in the documents entitled Claimant’s “Proposed Amended Complaint” and Claimant’s “Proposed Amended Statement of Facts” both of which documents are attached to the affidavit in support of this motion and marked Exhibits TM1 and TM2 respectively. AND FOR such further or other Orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.   The application is predica ...

...rdance with the obligation imposed on the 1st Defendant by the provisions of Section 5(5) of the Employees’ Compensation Act is wrong, illegal, a clear violation of the provisions of ECA and thereby constitutes an offence punishable under the Employees’ Compensation Act, 2011. 5.    A declaration that the 2nd Defendant’s failure/refusal/neglect to impose the requisite sanctions against the 1st Defendant and/or prosecute the 1st Defendant for its offenc ...

...         The Claimant opened his case on 13th January, 2025. He called his witness by name Ms. Oladele Adijat who testified as CW1, adopted her Statement of Oath dated 24th June, 2024 as her evidence-in-chief and tendered documents which were admitted in evidence and marked as Exhibits A to J respectively. The case of the Claimant briefly from the pleadings and evidence led is that he is a Data Analyst and a former employee of the Defendant who comme ...

...n of action, counsel referred the Court to section 12 (3) of the Act and contended that the period when an employee or dependent may elect to claim compensation is 6 month, failure to do so may make the claim to elapse. 7. In another argument, counsel stated that the Claimant herein sidesteps the requirement and came to Court prematurely. That until the Claimant has taken the necessary steps in conjunction with the 1st Defendant. It is inappropriate to make the 2nd Defendant a party. Couns ...