THE SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF NIGERIA LIMITED V. THE MINISTER OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES, NIGERIAN UPSTREAM PETROLEUM REGULATORY COMMISSION & THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION
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NIGERIA UNION OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS WORKERS (NUPENG), & PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS SENIOR STAFF ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (PENGASSAN)
(2024) JELR 112286 (CA)
Court of Appeal
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APPEAL NO. CA/ABJ/CV/1079/2022
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22 May 2024
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Nigeria
Coram
HAMMA AKAWU BARKA, JCA
ABBA BELLO MOHAMMED, JCA
PETER CHUDI OBIORAH, JCA
Appearances
Olujoke Aliu, Esq. with Okiemute Ohwahwa, Esq, for the Applicants/Party seeking to be joined.
Adebayo Ologe, Esq. with Oreoluwa Adelakun for 1st Respondent.
Yahaya Mohammed (CSC) Federal Ministry of Justice, Abuja for 3rd Respondent
Folabi Kuti, SAN with Michael Onyeahi, Esq. James Amende, Esq. and Femi Owade, Esq. for Party seeking to be joined as Respondent.
Judgement
<p style="text-align: justify"><strong><u> ABBA BELLO MOHAMMED, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): </u></strong>By a Motion on Notice filed on the 31st of October, 2022, the Applicants/Parties seeking to the joined, sought for the following reliefs:</p><ol><li><p style="text-align: justify">AN ORDER of this Honourable Court granting the Applicants leave to be joined as interested parties (Co-Respondents) in the appeal against the judgment of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Abuja Judicial Division, delivered on 28th July, 2022 in Suit No. NICN/ABJ/178/2022 by Justice B. B. Kanyip, PhD., President, National Industrial Court of Nigeria, between The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited V. The Minister of Petroleum Resources and 2 Ors., erroneously stated as Suit. No. NICN/LA/178/2022 in the Appellant’s Motion seeking leave to appeal.</p><p style="text-align: justify">AND FOR SUCH FURTHER ORDER or orders this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances.</p></li></ol><p style="text-align: justify">The application was supported by 5 grounds and a 20 paragraph Affidavit deposed to by Abdulmalik Achimugu, an Organising Of…</p>