Appeal Court Orders ASUU To Return To Classrooms

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was on Friday ordered to call off its strike.

In issuing the directive, the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, while throwing out the Union’s application for a stay of execution of an earlier ruling of the National Industrial Court directing the university lecturers to resume work, permitted the Union to appeal the ruling of the industrial court but ruled that it must first resume work to be allowed to file the appeal.

The three-member panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Hamma Barka held that should ASUU fail to re-open the universities, the permission it gave the Union to appeal against the interlocutory injunction of the National Industrial Court “will be automatically vacated.”

The appellate court gave the university lecturers’ union seven days within which to file its notice of appeal against the order of the National Industrial Court.

It would be recalled that the National Industrial Court had on September 21, 2022, ordered ASUU to call off the strike.

The court specifically granted the motion on notice filed by the federal government, directing the lecturers to return to classrooms.

In his ruling on the interlocutory injunction, the trial judge, Polycarp Hamman, restrained ASUU from continuing with the industrial action pending the determination of the suit filed against ASUU by the FG.

But not satisfied with the ruling, the union headed to the Appeal Court to appeal the ruling.

ASUU had further instituted a stay of execution of the ruling of the Industrial Court.

However, the Court of Appeal ordered the striking lecturers to “immediately” call off the eight months strike, having struck out ASUU’s application for a stay of execution of the lower court’s order.

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