<p><strong> ALAGOA JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): </strong> This is an appeal against the judgment of Abiriyi J. of the High Court of Justice Kaduna State delivered on the 6th April, 2001 wherein all the claims of the plaintiff now appellant were dismissed and the counterclaim of the defendant now respondent was granted. The plaintiff now appellant, dissatisfied with the said judgment has appealed to this court.</p><p>Briefly the facts as can be gleaned from the printed record and the briefs of the parties are as follows; the appellant was employed by the respondent bank in 1984 as a special entrant officer and rose through the ranks to the position of senior manager in 1995 and immediately prior to his removal was the senior manager (commercials), Kaduna North Branch, Kaduna. While in this position, the appellant was allegedly found guilty of gross negligence in the handling of the account of one Nasara Press Property where the value of third party cheques in the names of Tanko Kokwain and Anthony Sule to…</p>