AKOMOLAFE-WILSON JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment):
This is an appeal against the ruling of Hon. Justice M. G. Umar of the Federal High Court, Abuja Division delivered on 15 March 2009.
The appellants, as plaintiffs in the lower court filed their respective suits on 19 January 2009, seeking for five beliefs mainly on the declaration that tile letter of reversal or alteration of tile terms of their employment with the respondent, by the respondent is null and void and an order for payment of their entitlements arising from the reversal. The suits were consolidated by the court. The respondent successfully raised a preliminary objection on the ground that the action is statute-barred. Briefly, in 1994 the appellants, who were otherwise working in the United Kingdom, were employed by therespondent to the posts of Associate Professor and Lecturer Grade 1 respectively. Consequent upon a Visitation Panel Report on the respondent, and the subsequent Staff Audit Committee Report set up by the …