Chris Ngige, minister of labor and employment, has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to abide by the court’s order for lecturers to end their ongoing strike.
The federal government had applied for an interlocutory injunction on Wednesday, hoping to prevent ASUU from prolonging the strike, and the national industrial court had granted it on Wednesday.
The union’s members were also instructed to start work while the substantive suit was being heard and decided.
Even though the strike has been ongoing for more than seven months, ASUU has already stated that it would appeal the ruling.
In his reaction on Friday during a press briefing on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly (UNGA) in New York, Ngige said ASUU had a duty to obey the court order before taking any decision on the appeal.
“I am not ASUU, but the maximum in law is that when there is a court judgment or ruling or order, you must first obey. And then, we can apply for an appeal if…
