HAMMA AKAWU BARKA, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The instant appeal seeks to challenge the judgment of the National Industrial Court, Calabar Judicial Division, holden at Calabar, and manned by Justice E. N. Agbakoba. In the said judgment delivered on the 14th of July 2016, the court found for the respondent having ordered as follows:
i. The defendant shall pay to the claimant the sum of
N4,348,801.44 (Four Million, three hundred and forty-eight thousand, eight hundred and one naira, forty-four kobo) only being damages/compensation for wrongful dismissal.ii. Cost of this action is put at
N50,000.00 (fifty Thousand Naira) only payable by the defendant to the claimant.iii. All these sums are payable within 30 days of this judgment, failing which they shall attract interest at 10% per annum until they are fully paid.
It should be recalled that the respondent as claimant before the lower court, took out a writ of summons against the appellant on the 16th of January, 2014, seeking f…