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.
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, promised to “make further consultations”
over the strike.
Meanwhile, ASUU has said it is willing to suspend the strike
if the federal government accepts its “minimum demands”.
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