ALAN FEMI LANA V. THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

UCHE OMO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the dismissal by the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan Judicial Division of the plaintiff/appellant's claim for:-

"1. A DECLARATION that the Plaintiff ceased to be an employee of the University on 6th January 1981 when the Plaintiff by letter dated 6th January 1981 addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of the University resigned his appointment as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Biology and paid three months' salary in lieu of notice, and the resignation was accepted.

"2. A DECLARATION that the purported dismissal of the Plaintiff from the University service with effect from 27th February, 1981 as contained in the letter of the University dated 27th February 1981 (and publicised widely in the news media in Nigeria) was actuated by malice, is improper, unlawful, ineffectual, null and void.

"3. The Sum of ₦100,000.00 (One hundred thousand Naira) being damages for libel in that the University falsely a…