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By Shina Abubakar
The Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has reaffirmed its committedness to a unchangeable tertiary instauration world calendar and is, therefore, not portion of immoderate concern enactment called by its sister Union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
ASUU has conscionable declared a week’s informing onslaught crossed the country, citing the Federal Government’s reluctance to conscionable its long-standing demands.
However, CONUA, successful a connection signed by its National President, Dr. Niyi Sunmonu, connected Sunday, stated that the national has not seen immoderate crushed to embark connected concern enactment and claims that it is untrue that it joined the ASUU informing strike.
The national said it remains committed to world stableness and a functional, creaseless University strategy by engaging successful constructive dialog with the authorities and each stakeholders.
It past assured students crossed universities successful Nigeria of its members reporting astatine their work posts and called connected Vice-Chancellors crossed campuses to ensure the information and extortion of CONUA members arsenic they proceed their morganatic duties wrong their respective institutions.
It adds, “The enactment of the Congress of University Academics (CONUA) wishes to categorically clarify that CONUA has not declared immoderate onslaught enactment and is not portion of immoderate ongoing strike.
“CONUA remains profoundly committed to world stability, excellence, and the creaseless functioning of Nigeria’s universities done constructive dialog and peaceful engagement with authorities and each stakeholders.
“Our members are hereby urged to proceed performing their world and administrative duties diligently – to study to work, prosecute with students, and transportation retired their nonrecreational responsibilities arsenic expected. Your steadfastness and integrity stay captious to sustaining standards successful our higher acquisition system.
“Following the 11 September meeting, the nationalist enactment reported the result to members crossed universities, aft which congresses were held betwixt 18 and 24 September 2025.
“At these congresses, members unanimously reaffirmed CONUA’s principled stance that nary onslaught enactment should beryllium taken and that engagement, not disruption, remains the champion way guardant for the Nigerian assemblage system”.
The national added that it has nary crushed to telephone for a onslaught yet, arsenic it has not yet joined the roundtable negotiations and its connection is not yet the taxable of disagreement. For now, its stance is to proceed engaging with the authorities constructively.
“It is important to stress that CONUA has nary ground astatine this clip to state a quality oregon embark connected immoderate onslaught action.
“When the renegotiation committee of the 2009 Agreement was inaugurated successful October 2024, CONUA was conspicuously and deliberately omitted. The Union formally protested this exclusion, which yet culminated successful a gathering with the Honourable Minister of Education connected 11 September 2025.
“At that meeting, the Honourable Minister acknowledged CONUA’s concerns and assured that the Yayale Ahmed Renegotiation Committee would beryllium expanded to see each the world unions successful Nigeria’s national tertiary institutions.
“We are pleased to enactment that the Ministry of Education has precocious expanded the committee, fulfilling that promise. Until CONUA is formally brought to the array and immoderate of the issues it has presented to the Federal Government go subjects of dispute, determination is nary instauration whatsoever for immoderate onslaught enactment by CONUA”, the connection added.
The station ASUU Strike: CONUA not joining concern action appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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