ASUU strike: FG approves CONUA, As Academic Union
- presents certificate of registration to ASUU faction
The federal government has presented a certificate of registration to the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA).
CONUA is a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is led by its National Coordinator, ‘Niyi Sunmonu, a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife.
Ngige also presented a certificate of registration to the National Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA).
The development comes amid a strike which has lasted for over seven months by ASUU over the demand for increased funding for public universities, a review of lecturers’ salaries and allowances, among other issues.
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.
Meanwhile, ASUU has said it is willing to suspend the strike if the federal government accepts its “minimum demands”.
Gentechnews gathered that the new congress already has branches in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State; University of Benin; Federal University, Lokoja; Federal University, Oye Ekiti; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, and University of Jos, among others.
