The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered in an interim injunction stopping the organised labour, including the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress (TUC), and their affiliates from embarking on a workers strike planned to commence on November 14.
Justice Benedict Kanyip, gave the ruling on Friday while deciding an ex-parte application brought by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) argued by Tijani Gazali (SAN), Acting Director (Civil Appeals), Federal Ministry of Justice.
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Justice Kanyip, who is the president of the industrial court ruled further that the order shall subsist until the determination of a motion on notice for interlocutory injunctions equally filed by the AGF.
He pronounced that the court is empowered under sections Section 7(1) and 19(a) of the NICN Establishment Act, to hear such ex-parte application and grant such ex-parte order where a strike is threatened, but yet to be commenced, as in this case.
