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Professor drags VC to Industrial Court over demotion

by Niger Delta Today
January 16, 2019
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By Sampson Boroh

A demoted professor of the Federal University ,Otuoke, in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Mr Stephen Nwabuzor has dragged the Vice Chancellor, Professor Seth Accra Jaja and the management of the institution to Industrial Court.

The Governing Council of the institution had on its 10th meeting made key decisions involving appointments and discipline which led to the re-classification of some academic appointments by downgrading seven teaching staff appointments to lower ranks for lack of requisite scholarship including Professor Stephen Nwabuzor.

But the aggrieved, Professor Nwabuzor, in suit filed before the National Industrial Court, numbered NICN/YEN01/2019, sought the order of the court for a declaration that the regularisation of his appointment as a professor.


Nwabuzor argued that the institution’s letter of the appointment dated September 1, 2015 and the confirmation of his appointment voided the letter of February 21, 2017 demoting him.

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the claimant”s appointment has a statutory flavor and cannot be tampered with except in accordance with the Federal University,Otuoke (Establishment) Act 2015.

Also sought is a “declaration that the purported conversion of the claimant’s pensionable appointment to a contract appointment is ultra vires the defendants having regard to the Federal University,Otuoke (Establishment ) Act,2015,the 1999 constitution (as Amended) and all known Labour practice.”

He is asking the court, “A declaration that the purported reclassification of appointment of the claimant by the defendant from Professor to Lecturer 1 on the grounds that the claimant did not have the requisite scholarship at the point of entry without hearing the claimant is ultra fire,unconstitutional,null and void and of no effect.”

“An order of the honorable Court setting aside the defendants’ letter of 5th of July,2018 converting the claimant statutory appointment to a mere contract of employment.

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