The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has again challenged the decision of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, NIC, which ordered the striking lecturers to go back to work.
Counsel for ASUU, Femi Falana, SAN, who disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday to a reporter for The Punch said no date has been fixed for a hearing of the matter in Court.
"The appeal was filed on October 14, 2022. However, no date for hearing yet,” Falana had said
Femi Falana.
In response to the suggestion by the Minister of Labor and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige that ASUU should sue CONUA over its registration, Falana said, “The minister knows that he deliberately committed illegality.
"He should have gone to court to find out the legality of his proliferation of unions among academic staff in the universities,” Falana added.
The National Industrial Court's Justice Hamman Polycarp had ordered the striking lecturers to go back to work.
Following that decision, ASUU filed an appeal with the Appeal Court in Abuja.
However, the appellate court declined to hear ASUU’s appeal until the union complied with the industrial court's decision.
As a result, on October 13, 2022, ASUU ended its 8-months strike.
FG wants to ban ASUU and seize its assets says ASUU’s president.
The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has said that the Federal Government aims to
proscribe ASUU to take over the union's assets.
Professor Osodeke was speaking at a special gathering held by the ASUU chapter of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye in Ogun State to honor professor Ganiyu Olatunde, former vice-chancellor of the institution.
Image: The Punch.
He said, “I can see why the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige is interested in banning ASUU because once ASUU is proscribed, all the union’s assets automatically become the Federal Government’s property, even when the government is bereft of ideas to put in place, qualitative assets amid sufficient funds at its disposal as done at the University of Ibadan, UNIPORT, and the University of Maiduguri, among other places.
“You will never succeed in banning ASUU because ours is a union that assesses the system and aligns with the worthy course without being biased for the progress of the Nigerian educational society, " professor Osodeke said.
The ASUU president claimed that the Federal Government is jealous of ASUU’s success at creating high standards in providing infrastructure and services compared to what the government had done, despite the ample resources at its disposal.
According to him, ASUU’s guiding principle was to support a worthy cause that would advance the country’s educational sector and have positive multiplier effects on every other area of the country.
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