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NATIONAL PENSION COMMISSION
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FIRST GUARANTEE PENSION LTD. & ANOR

(2013) JELR 39655 (CA)

Court of Appeal 31 May 2013 Nigeria
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- The National Pension Commission took over the management of First Guarantee Pensions Ltd via letter dated 12 August 2011, prompting the company to initiate judicial review proceedings at the Federal High Court, Lagos, seeking reliefs incl

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Suit Number:CA/L/1102/2011
Judges:CHIMA CENTUS NWEZE Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria CHINWE EUGENIA IYIZOBA Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria FATIMA OMORO AKINBAMI Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria
Counsel:Emeka Ngige, SAN, with Obiora Atuegwu Egwuatu and K. Ojukwu For Appellant V. O. Ogude For Respondent

CHIMA CENTUS NWEZE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): By an ex parte application, the first respondent in this appeal, (as applicant), beseeched the Federal High Court, Lagos Judicial Division, (in this judgment referred to as "the lower court"), to favour it with the following reliefs:

1. An order granting leave to the applicant to apply for judicial review by seeking the following reliefs:

(a) A declaration that the taking over of the management of First Guarantee pension limited with effect from Monday 15th August 2011 and constitution of the Interim Management committee made up of Messrs by Aremu and a third member to superintend the affairs of the applicant until shareholders of the applicant convene an EGM/AGM with a view to properly constituting a board contained in letter Ref. No PENCOM/INSP/SURV/FIRST GUARANTEE/11/23 dated 12th of August 2011 and signed by one M.Y. Datti, Head, Surveillance Department of National Pension Commission, is illegal and void and of no effe…

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