OKESOTO
V.
TOTAL NIGERIA PLC
JOHN INYANG OKORO, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Tani Yusuf Hassan, delivered on the 7th day of April, 2005, wherein judgment was entered for the plaintiff/Appellant in part in the sum of N272,090.00. The court however dismissed the remaining portion of the Appellant's claims before it.
A brief facts of the case are that the Appellant who was the plaintiff at the lower court was an employee of ELF Oil Nigeria Limited which company later merged with Total Nigeria PLC. By virtue of the merger, the company was then known and called Totalfina Elf Nigeria Ltd which company was the defendant at the lower court when the suit was filed. The Appellant was so employed by the Respondent in 1990 after one year of internship. There were cases of fraud and embezzlement in some stations of the Respondent under the supervision of the Appellant. After investigation, the Respondent asked the Appella…