However, both the education, and labour and employment ministries denied acknowledgement of the payment plans.
has confirmed moves by the Nigerian government to pay its members’ withheld salaries.
But CONUA, a newly registered faction of ASUU, has continued to insist it was not party to the strike by its rival union, and that it could only not continue teaching because the universities were shut by the management.
CONUA has always insisted, since the inception of the eight months strike embarked upon by ASUU, that its members were not party to the strike. At the meeting, Mr Ngige directed CONUA to write to the government, noting that if found that the lecturers worked within the duration of the strike, they would be paid.
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