By Wendy Nweke
The National Industrial Court in Abuja, has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off its ongoing industrial strike.
In a ruling on the interlocutory injunction filed by the Federal government, Justice Polycarp Hamman restrained ASUU from continuing with the ongoing industrial action pending the determination of the suit.
Justice Hamman, who was a vacation judge, also ordered that the case file be returned to the president of the Industrial Court for reassignment to another judge.
ASUU had been on strike since the 14th of February, this year, as negotiations between it and the Federal Government had not yielded any results to enable students to resume academic session.
Meanwhile, the court order is coming barely few hours after the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, had threatened that no political campaign would hold across the country until students of public universities return back to their classrooms.