... (2) and (3); Section 54 (a) (b) and (c) of the Employees’ Compensation Act, 2010 by allowing officers of the Claimant, at all reasonable hours, unrestricted entry into any part of the establishment of the Defendant for purposes of assessment and inspection of wages and records/payrolls of the Defendant in respect of its employees; and access therein to the following documents:                    ...

... objection to the jurisdiction of the Court to determine this suit and urged the Court to dismiss same on the ground that the suit as commenced is statute barred.   The grounds upon which this application is brought are as follows; a.      The Claimant seeks an order compelling the Defendant to pay the sum of N82, 289, 231.01 (Eighty-two million three hundred and eighty-nine thousand, two hundred- and thirty-one-naira one kobo) representing ...

...h was the 12th day of July 2024, Counsel to the Defendant informed the Court that the defendant has filed its Statement of Defence and a Notice of Preliminary Objection (NPO) both filed on 2nd July, 2024. The Defendant’s Statement of Defence was however struck out for being incompetent, while Counsel to the Defendant was given leave of Court to move the Defendant’s Notice of Preliminary Objection (NPO). This ruling is in respect of the Defendants’ Notice of Preliminary Objection (NP ...

...E b.     AN ORDER of this Honourable Court transferring this suit to the Ogun State or Lagos Judicial Division of the Court; c.      AND FOR SUCH FURTHER OR OTHER ORDERS as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances of this case.   4.     The grounds upon which Applicant brought the application are as follows: a.      The subject matter in the above mention ...

...nbsp;   AN ORDER of this Honourable Court nullifying the purported termination by dismissal of the employment of the Claimant. e.      AN ORDER of this Honourable court for the immediate reinstatement of the claimant and payment of arrears and the present salary of the Claimant based on his current grade level if he were to be in the employment of the agency. f.       AN ORDER mandating the 1st and 2nd Defendants to ...

...ng for the following reliefs: (a) AN ORDER of court restraining the Respondent from quitting them or in whatever form or shape removing them from their residential quarters, No. 4 Sfax Close, NICON Insurance Quarters, Wuse Zone 4, Abuja pending the determination of the substantive suit (b)  AND FOR such further orders as the honorable court may deem fit to make in the circumstances. 3.      The Applicants stated the grounds upon which the reliefs are s ...

...otice is dated 17th of May 2024 and filed on the same date with the Applicant praying the court for the following reliefs; a.     An Order of Interlocutory Injunction restraining the Defendants particularly, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th and 7th Defendants whether jointly or severally by themselves or through their agents or privies from taking any steps or actions against the Claimant intended to or that will have the effect of rendering nugatory the outcome of the ...

... Defendant/Applicant in this suit for not being a juristic person; c.      And for such further order(s) as the court may deem fit to make in the circumstances. 4.      The grounds upon which Applicant brought the application are as follows: a.      That the action of the Claimant against the Defendant is statute barred as the cause of action arose on the 8/12/2017, when the Claimant’s contract of empl ...

... Republic of Nigeria 199 as amended; Section 29 of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020; Order 6 Rule 4(1); Order 2 Rule 1(1); Order 17 Rule 1 of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2017. The NPO seeks to determine the competence of this suit and the jurisdiction of the Court to hear and determine same. 4.     The particulars for the relief sought are as follows; a.      That this action as presently co ...

...nbsp;  A declaration that the defendants’ WhatsApp message published by the 2nd Defendant on the 1st Defendant’s staff WhatsApp Group on 2nd day of December, 2023 directing the Claimant to handover all the Company’s properties in his possession to Human Resources and that a letter of termination of contract be issued to the Claimant for non-Performance frontally attacked and assassinated the unblemished record of our client as a professional account of high pedigree; the direc ...

...in Court not even through a counsel, despite being served severally with the processes of this court. 3.     In the course of the proceedings the 4th Defendant/Applicant filed a Notice of Preliminary Objection on the 12th day of April 2024 pursuant to the inherent jurisdiction of this Court challenging the jurisdiction of the Honourable Court based on non-disclosure of any cause of action against the 4th Defendant/Applicant and for him not being a necessary or proper ...

...aimant cannot file a Motion to amend his Originating Processes. Counsel to the Claimant on the other hand argued that an application to bring a cause of action to life is always taken over and above that which will kill it. The Court in its brief Ruling held that in line with the provisions of Order 17 Rules 13 of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2017, the application to amend is apt and will be given priority at this stage. This opinion is also in consonan ...