PAUL ADAMU GALINJE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Appellant herein is a company incorporated in Nigeria and licensed to carry on the business of merchant banking with its registered office at 1/12 Macarthy Street, Lagos. The first Respondent is a former employee of the Appellant. During the course of that employment, the 1st Respondent was sponsored by the Appellant for a course upon a condition for which the 1st Defendant executed a service bond dated 7th of April 2000 in which he undertook to serve the Appellant after the course. However on the 9th of February 2001 the 1st Respondent withdrew his service with the Appellant and took up an appointment with the 2nd Respondent also a Company incorporated in Nigeria and carries on the business of banking.
It is against this fact that the Appellant sued the Respondents jointly and severally at the Lagos High Court wherein it claimed as follows:-
(i) (a) The sum of N277,510.00 being damages for breach of the contract betwee…