The federal government has presented a certificate of registration to the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA).
Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, presented the certificate to CONUA on Tuesday.
CONUA is a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Ngige also presented a certificate of registration to the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA).
The development comes amid a strike by ASUU over the demand for increased funding for public universities, a review of lecturers’ salaries and allowances, among other issues.
The strike has lasted for over seven months.
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Meetings between the federal government and ASUU have not yielded any concrete result that signifies that the strike will end soon.
However, the federal government had filed a case against ASUU before the national industrial court over the prolonged strike.
In its ruling, the court had ordered the lecturers to resume, but ASUU has filed an appeal seeking a stay of execution of the judgment.
Recently, the leadership of the house of representatives met with ASUU and federal government officials over the strike.
President Muhammadu Buhari had, at a recent meeting with pro-chancellors of federal universities, also promised to “make further consultations” over the strike by the lecturers.
This is so unfortunate, i am not making a case for ASUU but this is definitely not going to end well… Divide and Rule approach. Where is The Minister of Education in all of this? Where is Adamu Adamu? Where’s Buhari?
Why is Ngige in the centre space? Why is he behaving like this?
Only time shall reveal all…
CONUA should definitely teach all students…. All Federal Government should sack all ASUU MEMBERS..