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MRS. OMOLARA U. UMAR V. NATIONAL VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE & ANOR

(2018) JELR 38376 (CA)

Court of Appeal  •  CA/J/75/2017  •  20 Jun 2018  •  Nigeria

Coram
ADAMU JAURO JCA; UCHECHUKWU ONYEMENAM JCA; HABEEB ADEWALE OLUMUYIWA ABIRU JCA;

Judgement

HABEEB A. O. ABIRU, JCA (DELIVERING THE LEADING JUDGMENT): This appeal is against the judgment of the National Industrial Court sitting in its Jos Judicial Division and delivered by Honorable Justice R. H. Gwandu in Suit No NICN/JOS/50/2013 on the 15th of December, 2016. The Appellant was the claimant in the lower Court and her claims against the Respondents, as defendants, were for:

i. A declaration that the unwanted stoppage of her salary since October 2007 was unconstitutional and a flagrant violation of her as a public servant.

ii. A declaration that her purported dismissal from the service of the first Respondent by the Respondents without due process or fair hearing was ultra vires, null, void and of no effect whatsoever and also constituted a flagrant breach of her fundamental rights and that consequently, she is still in the employment of the first Respondent.

iii. A declaration that her purported dismissal by Respondents without compliance with the provisions of the Public Servi…

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