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of service agreed with NICON and not with NICON
Insurance Plc. These are facts the appellant has
overtly admitted. The appellant has nowhere
alleged that these documents have lost their
respective effectiveness and therefore not binding
on the parties on NICON having been transformed
into NICON Insurance Plc. That is not the
appellant's case here nor has the appellant pleaded
any other documentary evidence entered into, in
these respects with NICON Insurance Plc covering
their employment relationship. Of course he knows
that that will be the end of his case in this matter
rather he has propped up his case on them that is
the instant documents relating to his employment
relationship with NICON. Even then what is more
devastating to the appellant's case is the fact that
NICON as established by the National Insurance
Corporation Act 1969 - now Cap. No.54 Laws of the
Federation 2004 has one significant provision in
the Act thus providing that NICON as per Section 7,
"shall be deemed to be a company registered
under the Insurance Act".
It is not intended to expatiate on the implication of
the foregoing provision being totally irrelevant to
the immediate question for resolution in this
appeal.
It is my view, however, that so long as the Act
has not been repealed that, that status still remains
extant. And so it must be observed that the
appellant's submission that one of the
consequences of NICON having been registered
under CAMA that is to say in this case is that