The Federal Government has said
it will meet with the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) on
Monday December 10 over the ongoing nationwide strike embarked upon by
lecturers.
The Minister of Labour and
Employment, Chris Ngige, made this known in a statement signed by the Director
of Press in the Ministry, Mr Samuel Olowookere, in Abuja.
NAN reports that Ngige said that
all further discussions between the Ministry of Education and ASUU would now
reconvene at 4 pm at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.
The minister also condemned a
statement credited to a Human Rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, who was alleged to
have described as illegal the enforcement of section 43:1 of the Trade Dispute
Act 2004 on the “No Work No Pay’’.
Falana was also said to have
asked the federal government to immediately withdraw what he termed an “illegal
order”.
The minister, however, said that
the law of ‘’No Work, No Pay,’’ was a fundamental axiom in labour and
industrial relations all over the world.
He said that the ministry would
investigate the media report credited to Falana to ascertain whether he
actually quoted the Supreme Court judgements.
“That is knowing that they are
tangential and that they neither anchor nor dwell on provisions of section 43
of Trade Dispute Act T8 (LFN 2004) before it will take further necessary
action, ” he said.
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