The federal government has officially registered two new academic unions in the Nigerian Universities as trade unions.
Those familiar with the matter said the new move was in a bid to weaken the powers of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which had been at loggerheads with the federal government.
The newly registered unions are the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA), a breakaway faction of ASUU and the Nigeria Association of Medical and Dental Lecturers in Academics (NAMDA).
Speaking to journalists while formally presenting the Certificate of Registration to the two unions in Abuja, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, maintained that the move was in line with the law of the land in the face of the crisis rocking the universities.
