CHIEF ORLANDO OLAIYA OJO & ANOR V. NATIONAL PENSION COMMISSION & ANOR

CHIMA CENTUS NWEZE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appellants herein [as applicants] entreated the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division, by an ex-parte application, for leave to apply for judicial review. They beseeched the court (hereinafter referred to as the lower court) for the following reliefs:

a. A declaration that the purported removal of the first and second applicants, Chief Orlando Olaiya Ojo and Nze Chidi Duru, vide letter Ref. Nos. PENCOM/INSP/SURV/FIRSTGUARNTEE/11/22 dated 12th of August, 2011 and signed by one M. K. Ahmed, Director General of National Pension Commission, is illegal, null and void and of no effect whatsoever;

b. An order of certiorari removing into this court and quashing the decision removing the first and second applicants as Directors of First Guarantee Pension Limited contained in letters Ref. Nos.PENCOM/INSP/SURV/FIRSTGUARANTEE/11/22 dated 12th August, 2011;

c. An order setting aside all the steps or actions taken by the first …