Commissioner can’t change AAU governing council’s decision, court declares |

National Industrial Court of Nigeria, sitting in Benin City, Edo State, yesterday, declared that the state Commissioner for Education, Jimoh Ejegbai, lacks powers to change the decision of Governing Council of the Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma.

In the judgment on the suit marked: NICN/BEN/26/2020 in Asigene Peter against AAU, Commissioner for Education as defendants, Justice A. A. Adewemimo, voided Asigene’s dismissal from the service of the university due to the commissioner’s interference in the university’s disciplinary process.

Specifically, the court held that the…