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DISMISSAL AND TERMINATION OF CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA

The relationship betwecn an employer and his employee is taken as regulated by the individual contract of employment. Vital aspects of that contract remain supposedly agreed by the parties without interference based on the common law rule that parties are free to enter into contracts, including contract of employment. Unfortunately, the doctrine of freedom of contract did not consider parties, who for economic, social and even political reasons are in such weak position that hardly can there be said to be any bargaining power’. This manifests in employment situations. Besides, the common law v…