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THE CONSOLIDATED PETROLEUM, CHEMICAL AND GENERAL WORKERS' UNION OF NIGERIA AND MESSRS INTERNATIONAL DRILLING COMPANY (NIGERIA) LIMITED (NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COURT) HON. JUSTICE (CHIEF) P.A. ATILADE PRESIDENT DR O.I. ODUMOSU MEMBER S.O. KOKU,ESQ. MEMBER DR. E.C. IWUJI MEMBER ALHAJI Z.M. BELLO MEMBER SUIT NO NIC/7/78 DATE OF JUDGMENT MONDAY, 25th SEPTEMBER, 1978. LABOUR LAW Trade dispute - Award - 'No award" - Where made by Industrial Arbitration Panel - Appeal against -Whether the National Industrial Court can make any award. ISSUE: Whether the court can make an award where an appeal against a no-award made by Industrial Arbitration Panel is withdrawn. FACTS: There was a dispute between the parties concerning refusal by the Respondent to pay the agreed minimum rates of wages thereby violating Article 7 of the existing collective agreement between the management of the Respondent and the Appellant. The dispute was referred to the Industrial Arbitration Panel, which declined to make any award in respect of the claim of the Appellant. The Appellant subsequently lodged an objection to the “No award” made by Panel before the National Industrial Court. On 6th September, 1978, the Appellants filed a notice of withdrawal of the appeal dated T September, 1978. And on 24th July, 1978, counsel for the Appellants informed the court that he had been formally instructed to withdraw the appeal from the court, because the appellants no longer wished to pursue the matter further. HELD: (Declining to make any award in respect of the Appellant s claim): On Whether the National Industrial Court will make an award where an appeal against j no-award made by the Industrial Arbitration Panel is withdrawn - Where an appeal against a no-award made by the Industrial Arbitration Panel is withdrawn, the National Industrial Court will make no award in respect of the Appellant's claim. HON. JUSTICE (CHIEF) P.A. ATILADE - PRESIDENT DR O.I. ODUMOSU - MEMBER S.O. KOKU,ESQ. - MEMBER DR. E.C. IWUJI - MEMBER ALHAJI Z.M. BELLO - MEMBER