Court awards ₦108.5m to 18 workers over discrimination
The court found that the Taraba State Government had promoted and incorporated the company for publishing and commercial purposes, controlled its affairs and appointed its managing consultant and chief executive officer.
The claimants alleged that after the publishing company stopped operating some of its offices, the Taraba State Government absorbed some former employees into the state civil service but excluded them because they were non-indigenes.
The judge said employees of a state-owned incorporated company could, in exceptional circumstances, be regarded as being in the public service of the state for constitutional purposes where the government holds controlling shares or interests in the company.
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