IN THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COURT OF NIGERIA
IN THE KANO JUDICIAL DIVISION
HOLDEN AT KANO
BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP: HON. JUSTICE E.D.E ISELE – PRESIDING JUDGE
DATE: 1ST JULY, 2019 SUIT NO: NICN/MAID/02/2018
BETWEEN:
MR. ABUBAKAR IBRAHIM…………………….………………………………………CLAIMANT
AND
LAKE CHAD HOTEL
AREWA HOTEL LIMITED……….…………….………………………………RESPONDENTS
REPRESENTATIONS:
Parties absent –
A.Z. Ibrahim, Esq. for the claimant,
No representationfor the Respondent.
CONSENT JUDGEMENT
This suit was filed in this Honourable Court by a Motion on Notice dated 1st day of March, 2018 and filed on the 29th day of March, 2018 where the claimant praying the Court for the following:-
AN ORDER for Summary Judgment in suit between Mr. Abubakar Ibrahim and Lake Chad Hotel Maiduguri, Arewa Hotel Limited for sum of N2,909,870:94 being benefits of Claimant.
AND for such order of further order as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstance.
On the 1st day of July, 2019 the matter came up for adoption of terms of settlement dated 29th day of June, 2019. Parties and their counsel have met on 2 different occasions and the terms of settlement were set down and agreed upon by the parties which have been adopted as consent Judgment of this Honourable Court as contained in paragraphs a – e of the terms of settlement. The terms of settlement which was duly executed by the counsel to both parties state as follows:
That the Claimant herein is the same Abubakar Ibrahim who worked as a staff of the Defendants herein and therefore the Defendants are not in way disputing his identity.
That the Claimant shall be paid the of N40,000:00 (Forty Thousand Naira) at the end of every month commencing in August, 2019 until the whole of the sum to Two Million Nine Hundred and Nine Thousand, Eight Hundred and Seventy Naira Eighty Four Kobo (N2,909,870:84) is fully liquidated.
That the Defendants shall have striven to pay the Claimant the balance that may be left unpaid in bulk as soon as the financial situation of the Defendants improves.
That the Claimant herein has abandoned the claim of interest and cost of the suit in the spirit of reconciliation.
That this terms of settlement shall be entered as the Judgment of this Honourable Court in this matter
Court:
The terms of settlement filed before this court between the parties on the 29th day of June, 2019 is hereby entered as the Consent Judgment of the court in the matter.
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Hon. Justice E.D.E Isele
Presiding Judge
