Strike: FG orders VCs to resume varsities

The Federal Government has directed vice chancellors to reopen public universities in the country.

The directive is contained in a letter issued by using the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rasheed.

In the letter signed by using Director, Finance and Accounts of the NUC, Sam Onazi, the fee stated vice-chancellors, Pro-Chancellors and chairmen of governing councils of federal universities had been to re-open faculties and make sure lecturers resumed.

“Ensure that ASUU contributors straight away resume/commence lectures; Restore the each day things to do and routines of the a number University campuses,” the letter examine in part.

The directive used to be issued days after the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to droop its seven-month strike.

Presiding Judge, Justice Polycarp Hamman granted the federal government’s utility for an interlocutory injunction to restrain ASUU from persevering with with the strike, announcing it used to be a count of country wide interest.