ANTOUN & ANOR
V.
OGHENE
MOHAMMED AMBI-USI DANJUMA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the decision of the Hon. Justice E. A. Lufadeju of the Lagos State High Court delivered on the 25th day of February 2005 by which the said learned trial Judge granted all the reliefs claimed by the claimant/Respondent in his claim for specific sums for alleged breach of contract of employment by termination thereof before the attainment of the stipulated terminal age of 60 years. The Respondent who was the claimant at the lower court had taken out a writ of summons and statement of claim dated the 5th day of March, 1999 by which he claimed the following reliefs:
i) The normal entitlement upon retirement.
ii) The sum of N2.5 Million (Two Million Five hundred Thousand) Naira being the Plaintiff's emolument up to sixty years retirement age.
iii) Damages of 1.5 Million Naira for wrongful termination of the Plaintiff's employment."
See pages 2 and 4 of the Record of Appeal for the Writ of Summons…