The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has reserved judgment for May 30 on the substantive application brought by the Federal Government, challenging the eight-month strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The presiding judge, Hon. Justice Benedict Kanyip, made this pronouncement for judgment on Thursday.
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This was after the parties in the matter adopted their written addresses in the referral NICN/ABJ/270/2022, as earlier directed by the court.
This was contained in a statement by the Ministry of Labour which stated that at the last hearing on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, Justice Kanyip, the President of NICN, granted the defendants seven days to file a reply on point of law to the substantive application of the Federal Government, the claimants.
The orders sought by the Federal Government include that the eight-month ASUU strike did not follow the law, which case, made it an illegal strike.
The government is also asking the court to declare that ASUU, having embarked on a strike at that time, were not entitled to any payment as provided by the law in Section 43 of the Trade Dispute Act, TDA, 2004 “No Work, No Pay” policy and ILO principles on the right to strike.
