The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that it will appeal the order by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) asking its members to call off the protracted industrial action.
The union make this known in a statement signed by the Lagos Zonal Coordinator, Dr Adelaja Odukoya.
Odukoya quoted the Union’s president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, as saying, “our lawyer is filing an appeal and stay of execution of the judgment.”
In the statement titled, “NICN back to work order on ASUU: Be calm”, Osodeke urged the dissatisfied university teachers to remain calm as there is no cause for alarm on the back-to-work order delivered on Wednesday.
“Members should remain resolute and strong. A people united can never be defeated. Solidarity without compromise,’’ he stated.
Theliberationnews reported that Hon. Justice Hamman Polycarp of the National Industrial Court, on Wednesday, granted an order of interlocutory injunction restraining ASUU by themselves, members, agents, servants, privies or howsoever called from taking further steps and doing any act or otherwise continuing with the indefinite strike or any strike action pending the hearing and determination of the suit filed by the Federal Government.
