ABBA BELLO MOHAMMED, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the Ruling of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, Abuja Division (the trial court), delivered on the 12th of June, 2013 by Hon. Justice O. A. Shogbola. In the said Ruling, the learned trial judge refused to set aside his earlier Ruling of 12th March, 2013 substituting Afribank Nigeria PLC with the 1st Appellant and joining the 2nd and 3rd Appellants as Respondents to the action, after judgment was delivered on the 21st January, 2010.
The facts leading to this appeal as discernible from the Record of Appeal, are that the Respondents, as Plaintiffs, instituted an Originating Summons in Suit No. NICN/ABJ/14/2009 before the Kano Judicial Division of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria against Afribank Nigeria Plc and its Managing Director, Nebolisa Arah (as 1st and 2nd Defendants, respectively), wherein they sought for an order of the trial court directing the Defendants to pay the Plaintiffs and…