Nigeria: Court Strikes Out NUT's Suit Against ASUSS

9 December 2014

The National Industrial Court sitting in Enugu has resolved the lingering suit between the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, Edo State and the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools of Nigeria, ASUSS, over which of the two has the right to check-off dues/levies from teachers in primary/secondary schools in the state.

The court held that NUT's claim that it has general right to collect check-off dues and or subscriptions from teachers, as a general right does not exist, noting that the right of the claimant to collect check-off dues or subscriptions upon which its interest should be rooted, was limited to its members.

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