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GE INT’L OPERATIONS (NIG.) LTD
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Q OIL AND GAS SERVICES LTD

(2016) JELR 54112 (SC)

Supreme Court 18 Mar 2016 Nigeria
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- The case concerned a claim for breach of a Master Services Agreement under which the respondent supplied contract staff (Mr. Raja Kumar) to the appellant; the appellant rejected the staff without stated reason and refused to allow the cla

Case Details

Suit Number:SC.207/2014
Judges:SULEIMAN GALADIMA JSC OLABODE RHODES-VIVOUR JSC NWALI SYLVESTER NGWUTA JSC (Read the Lead Judgment) MUSA DATTIJO MUHAMMAD JSC
Counsel:Tunde Olowu (with him, Raymond Ofagbor) - for the Appellant. Femi Falana, SAN (with him, T. O. Waamah, Deji Morakiyo, Ernest Olawale, Marshal Abubukar) - for the Respondent.

NGWUTA JSC (Delivering the Lead Judgment): Endorsed on the A writ of summons issued out of the registry of the High Court of Justice Rivers State, sitting at Port Harcourt on 5 March 2010 are the respondent’s (the claimant) claims against the appellant, then defendant: “1. A declaration that the master services agreement between the claimant and the defendant is still valid and subsisting.

A declaration that the act of the defendant in rejecting Mr. Raja Kumar, a contract staff supplied by the claimant to the defendant, pursuant to the master services agreement between the claimant and the defendant without any reason whatsoever amounts to a breach of the said contract. A declaration that the defendant’s refusal of the claimant to fill the vacant slot/position of the contract staff as provided in their agreement is wrongful, illegal and unlawful and therefore amounts to a breach of contract.

The sum of twenty thousand US Dollars ($20,000) beingmoney spent by the claimant in bringing M…

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