AKAUVE MOSES OSOH G. B. U. ONWUEMEZIE E. O. EHIGHALUA SAMSON O. OBETO MISS P. N. OJOUGBOH FLORENCE I. OKPUNO D. OMO IBHARALU BENSON UBIEBI ANTHONY O. TEBU OSAZE USIOBAIFO B. O. AGELOISA HENRYOSUNOBUN OGIUGO G. A. E. OMOREGIE LAWRENCE ABUAH OLELE SAMUEL S. OKOYA O. A. UKIRI A. LOLODI MRS. M. O. ESON A. O. J. AIRAOJE B. C. OBIAZI MRS. E. N. EHIGIAMUSOE L. O. MONYEI L. O. ALIBOR MR. P. N. UMUNNA MR. A. O. FREGENE MR. T. E. AKPOMUGHE F. E. IGHOROGDJE B. I. G. KASSIM J. E. IGBIGBIGBE M. I. ISALAR T. O. ADERIBIGBE J. A. AIMUFUA MR. M. UMORU J. I. AIGBEKAEN ANEKE ISAAC F. EBIHODAGHE A. C. ONYAGBADU-ONABU MATHIAS K. KATOR J. N. AKWUEH AUGUSTINE A. AGBABIAKA C. T. EREWA V. UNITY BANK PLC

CHUKWUMA-ENEH JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The plaintiffs, forty-one (41) of them in this action in the trial court are senior staffers and former employees of the 1st defendant and are the appellants in this appeal. The 1st defendant at the trial court is now the sole respondent in this court as the appeal against the 2nd defendant has been discontinued. It is not contested in the matter that the appellants, each of them, have put in various years of length of service not below ten (10) years in their respective employments with the respondent. By identical letters dated 12 November 1994, their respective employments with the respondent have been terminated on the ground that their services are no longer required and as alleged in the said letters, their individual accounts have to be credited with a month’s salary in lieu of notice, which has been paid much later.

The plaintiffs have initiated the instant action for the wrongful termination of their respective employments in…