In a final push to end the nearly eight-month lecturers’ strike and reduce the influence of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Nigerian government has ordered two newly registered academic unions to commence lectures immediately. SaharaReporters earlier reported that President Muhammadu Buhari's government through the Ministry of Labour and Employment registered the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) and Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA), to break the ranks of ASUU which has been on strike since February 14.
Buhari Regime Directs New University Unions To Start Teaching Immediately Amid 7-Month-Old Strike By Lecturers, ASUUThe lecturers’ union has been on strike since then, grounding academic activities in public universities.
Speaking during the registration, labour and employment minister, Dr Chris Ngige said the two unions were registered after due consideration following a series of letters written to the ministry by the lecturers who made up the two new unions. He added that the registration of the new unions is an action taken to ensure that no union will cripple Nigerian university education. He insisted that ASUU’s actions are not in favour of progressive tertiary education in the country.
“These associations will exist side by side with ASUU in the Nigerian universities in the spirit and tenets of the International Labour Organisation core convention. They are accordingly entitled to all rights and privileges accruing to such academic association/ organisation including but not limited to receiving check-off dues of their members,” Ngige said.
In his response, the president of NAMDA, Dr Nosa Lance Orhue, said the registration has given medical and dental academicians in the university and other tertiary institutions, where the training of medical students and postgraduate doctors takes place, a legal voice.
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