N.N.P.C.
V.
OLAGBAJU

AUGIE JCA (Delivering the Lead Judgment): The respondents’ claims at the Federal High Court, Akure, Ondo State, wherein they were plaintiffs, was for - a declaration that the purported termination of their employment by the appellant is “wrongful, illegal, null and void and of no effect whatsoever”; alternatively,the sum of N25,000,000.00 as special and general damages; and an order of reinstatement to their regular posts without loss of seniority and/or benefits. The learned trial Judge, Abdu-Kafarati J., held that their employments were unlawfully terminated by the appellant, and ordered their reinstatement andthe payment of salaries,allowances, bonuses, emoluments and damages to them. Dissatisfied with the said judgment ofAbdu-Kafarati J., delivered on the 30th of March, 2002, the appellant has appealed to this court on 6 (six) grounds of appeal set out in paragraph 3 of its amended notice of appeal, with ground 6 raising a fresh issue on jurisdiction. In line with the rules of c…