Facts:

The Claimant’s evidence is that he was employed by the defunct Afribank Nigeria Plc, which was changed to Mainstreet Bank Limited and later to Skye Bank Plc and then to Polaris Bank Limited (1st Defendant), as General Manager, e-Solutions for a probationary period of six months, subject to confirmation on the satisfaction of the following conditions: 1) Receipt of satisfactory reports from your last employers and referees; 2) A satisfactory medical report from our (bank) named medical consultant; 3) Report of satisfactory performance from your Branch Manager. The Claimant asserts that he satisfied the above conditions. In spite of this, his impressive job performance and approval of his confirmation appraisal by his line Executive Directors, the 2nd and 3rd Defendants treated his confirmation of employment with reckless indifference; and the Defendants’ arbitrarily and unlawfully held up the confirmation of his employment without any justification. Notwithstanding the non-confirmation of his appointment, the 1st Defendant retained him in its employment, redeployed him as Head, Commercial Banking Strategic Business Unit, and granted him staff loan which was only for confirmed employees. The Claimants further stated that he was in the 1st Defendant’s employment until when he was informed that his appointment could not be confirmed because his services were no longer required. He alleged that he was the only senior management staff whose employment was not confirmed after 31 months in the employment of the 1st Defendant. It is his case that the Defendants terminated his employment without notice about two years after the expiration of his probation and without payment of any severance benefits or entitlements for the period he worked in full capacity as General Manager. Thus, his claim is for the benefits that would have accrued to him as a General Manager in the Bank from 4th March 2009 to 7th April 2011. The Defendants’ in contention filed their defense denying all the allegations and claims of the Claimant.
Upon the conclusion of trial, parties adopted their written address and the case was set down for judgment.