HAMMA AKAWU BARKA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The instant appeal is against the judgment of M. O. Adewara J of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital in suit No. KWS/210/2011 between Dr. Taiwo Oloruntoba- Oju and Dr. S. Y. Omoiya and one or, delivered on the 13th of April, 2017.
Indeed the parties to the action before the lower Court are academics and members of the staff of the University of Ilorin. It is common ground that the respondent a senior lecturer in the department of English was amongst the 49 lecturers sacked by the University of Ilorin sometimes in the year 2001; but later reinstated after litigation by Order of the apex Court in 2009. The respondent before the sacking of the 49 staff members from University of Ilorin, hereafter called Unilorin, was the chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Unilorin Branch, having been sacked in 2001, and between 2001 to 2009, members of the Academics of the University, by…