His Lordship, Hon. Justice Isaac Essien of the National
Industrial Court sitting in Lagos has dismissed the preliminary
objection filed by First Bank of Nigeria challenging the court
jurisdiction to hear matter brought by Mrs Lilian Akumah seeking a
court order on an alleged unlawful termination of her employment
contract and alleged refusal to pay her purported benefits.
The court held that the provision of S. 8(1)a of the Limitation
Law of Lagos State, has no application to the contract of
employment between the parties, therefore, the matter is not
statute-barred.
From facts, the defendant/applicant counsel by a notice of
preliminary objection brought pursuant to section 8(1) (a) of the
Limitation Law Cap L67 Laws of Lagos State 2003, sought an order of
the court dismissing and or striking out the suit on the grounds
that the cause of action is irreparably statute-barred having been
extinguished pursuant to Section 8 (a) of the Limitation Law. Cap.
L67, Laws of Lagos State, 2003 among others.
Counsel to the applicant maintained that by virtue of the
express provisions of 8 (1)(a) of the Limitation Law of Lagos
State, the limitation period for commencing the matter elapsed on
or about the 21 October 2014 and the claimants cause of action
accordingly became extinguished and barred with effect from that
date thereby depriving the Court of the jurisdiction and competence
to entertain the suit.
Delivering the ruling, Hon. Justice Isaac Essien held that the
provision of S. 8(1)a of the Limitation Law of Lagos State, has no
application to the contract of employment between the parties and
dismissed the preliminary objection.
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CENDAL Hosts SDGs Summit in ABU
As part of the mandate of the Centre for Development and
Advanced Learning (CENDAL) to promote educational excellence in and
around the sustainable development goals of the United Nations,
CENDAL would in collaboration with Connected Development host the
first Universities SDGs Summit in Ahmadu Bello University.
The Summit which is scheduled to hold from February 27th – 1st
March 2020 seeks to host students and professionals from different
institutions in Nigeria to drive more awareness around the United
Nations Global Goals for sustainable development.
The Summit would be featuring Panel Discussions and Paper
Presentations from VCs and other key individuals from the academia
and other institutions. Awards would also be issued to students and
other institutions for their active contribution to the Global
Goals.
With just ten years 2020 until the next review for the SDGs, the
pertinence of collaboration cannot be overemphasized.
The summit is to hold annually in different universities around
the country leading up to the next review of the United Nations and
every year a compendium of the summit detailing students concerns,
communiques from the summit panels and suggestions on how the
government and the United Nations itself can further advance better
achievement of the goals would be published. This compendium is to
serve as a referral document for public consumption.
The Centre invites Universities, Organizations and other
promoters of the SDGs to join in on the summit.