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Five academic staff drag UNN to court over removal from governing board

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Five academic staff of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, have filed a lawsuit against the management of the university at the Federal Court High sitting in Enugu for refusing to allow elected members of the Governing Council to serve out their tenure.

The aggrieved academics, comprising three professors, argued that they were elected for a four-year tenure as internal members of the governing board but were not allowed to continue in office after the dissolution and reconstitution of the governing councils of the federal universities. The applicants, through their counsel, Chidioke Ezeh, urged the court for an interlocutory injunction stopping the university from conducting fresh elections into the governing council of the institution.

The applicants, in a motion on notice, said they were distinctively elected as internal members of the governing council of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, from the various categories of Senate, convocation and congregation. They stated that they have their own distinct memoranda to council, election results, notice of meeting and minutes of meetings. The suit equally urged the court to construe relevant provisions of the Interpretation Act as to what constitutes four-year under the law.

 

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