The Court of Appeal on Friday ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)to call off it’s seven months old industrial action , while granting that the union can appeal the ruling of the National Industrial Court .
The court, however, granted the application on the condition that the union obeys the ruling of the lower court and calls off the strike immediately pending the determination of the substantive suit
The court gave ASUU seven days within which to file the appeal.
Reports have it that the
National Industrial Court on Sept. 21, ordered ASUU to call off the strike.The court granted the motion on notice filed by the Federal Government, urging the lecturers to return to classrooms.
Ruling on the interlocutory injunction, the trial judge, Justice Polycarp Hamman, restrained ASUU from continuing with the industrial action pending the determination of the suit filed against ASUU by the Federal Government.
Miffed by the ruling, the union headed to the appellant court to appeal the ruling
union to call off its strike.
