Nigeria, Sept. 27 -- The Federal High Court in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State has awarded N22 million in damages against the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCOS) over the assault of a lawyer, Sampson Ekigbo.

Mr Ekigbo had filed the fundamental rights suit against the NCoS and four other respondents on 30 January 2025.

The lawyer was said to have been brutally assaulted on 24 November 2024 at Harriz Filling Station, Abakaliki, by two NCoS officers identified as Ifeanyi Nwovu and Ogwuma Chidi.

He is also a presiding officer in a customary court in the South-eastern state.

Mr Ekigbo filed the suit against the NCoS, its comptroller-general and the comptroller in charge of Ebonyi Command of the Service and the two officers.

NCoS and its comptrol...