THE FED. CO-OP. COLLEGE, IBADAN & ORS.
V.
CHRISTIANA

JOSEPH SHAGBAOR IKYEGH, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The appeal emerged from a Ruling of the High Court of Justice of Oyo State sitting at Ibadan (the court below). The proceedings behind the appeal were anchored on the Fundamental Rights (Enforcement Procedure) Rules, 1979. The court below found for the respondents that the appellants had infringed her fundamental right to fair hearing. It also found that the appellants had no jurisdiction to discipline the respondent for alleged examination malpractice. Flowing from the said double - barrel findings, the court below declared the decision of the appellants to withhold the Ordinary National Diploma certificate of the respondent null and void and of no effect. It concluded its Ruling by directing the appellants to release the Ordinary National Diploma certificate (OND) of the respondent to her forthwith.

The relevant facts of the dispute between the appellants and the respondent may be stated in a nutshell as follows. The …