ABUBAKARI UMAR AND MOHAMMED HAFIZ vs. NATIONAL HEALTH AND INSURANCE AUTHORITY

LOVELACE-JOHNSON (MS), JSC: - This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 11th May 2018 by which the said court upheld the appeal of the appellants in part and made an order granting them their earnings from October 2012 to April 2014. At the high court, the appellants had sought an order directing that their names be restored to the respondent’s payroll, recovery of their unpaid salaries for a stated period, interest on these salaries up to the date of the said restoration and general damages. The respondents had denied their claim and also counterclaimed for certain reliefs. The gist of the plaintiff’s case at the high court was that having been employed by the respondents on 9th April 2012, they received their salaries from that date till May 2014 when these salaries were stopped. All efforts for this situation to be rectified were unsuccessful. They stated that they suffered hardship and inconvenience as a result of this state of affairs. It was the...