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After 234 days (33 weeks) of university shutdown owing to strike action, the Federal Government, yesterday, registered two new trade unions for workers in the university and teaching hospitals.
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The decision of the federal government to approve a faction group for the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has continued to spark social media reactions. African Examiner writes that ASUU for 232 days and efforts by the federal government and the union to reach an agreement has not yielded any result.
The Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA), a parallel union which claimed it broke out of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has claimed its members are ready to abandon the eight months’ lingering industrial action embarked upon by ASUU. The National Legal Adviser of CONUA, Misbau Alamu Lateef, insisted that they were over 1000 university lecturers, and ready to return to class. Lateef said this in a statement released on his Facebook page after the Nigerian government presented a certificate of registration to the union on Tuesday.