Termination of Employment The Applicability or otherwise and the Implications of 'Statutory Flavour' to Senior Employees of Private Universities in Nigeria

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This paper examines the applicability or otherwise and the implications of 'statutory flavour' to the contract of employment of senior employees of private Universities in Nigeria. It considers the meaning of employment clothed with statutory flavour. It argues whether the control, regulation, supervision, verification and accreditation of academic programmes of private Universities by statutory bodies such as the National University Commission (NUC) and the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB); and the regulatory statutes such as the National Universities Commission Act and the Education (National Minimum Standards and Establishments of Institutions) Act, for instance, does not make private Universities a creation of statute by extension, thereby making statutory flavour applicable to the status of senior employees of those Universities. It considers whether the license granted by the government through the regulatory bodies for the establishment of private universities is not a quasi statute, even if it is not statute per se. With relevant authorities and statutes to ascertain its position, the paper concludes by establishing that senior employees in private Universities should have their employment clothed with statutory flavour like their public counterparts especially when the issue of determination of their employment comes up
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Termination of employment, Employment with Statutory flavour, Private universities, Senior employees, Statute
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