The Federal Government of Nigeria on Friday directed the management of all federal universities to comply with the order of the National Industrial Court (NIC) directing the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to return to classrooms pending the determination of the substantive matter before it.
The government asked the pro-chancellors and vice-chancellors to ensure that the striking lecturers resume and commence lectures immediately.
The new directive, which was contained in a letter addressed to the universities by the National Universities Commission (NUC), seems to have ignored the stay of execution application filed at the appeal court against the NIC order by the lecturers’ union.
But the management of the various universities is currently unsure of how to execute the new directive by the government.
Some of the members of the different managements of some universities who spoke said they were worried based on the judicial interpretation of the current status of the pending case at the court.
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