They criticised the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, for being against the demands of university lecturers.
Labour and employment minister Chris Ngige said at the 8th meeting of the National Employment Council on Friday in Abuja.
Mr Buhari’s regime has proposed a compulsory eight-week course at the Michael Imoudu National Institute of Labour Studies for all newly elected labour leaders in Nigeria.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Jos has appealed to ASUU to be compassionate with students and resume lectures.
The ASUU chairman added that students will “wait indefinitely, pending the payment of lecturers withheld salaries.”
ASUU is asking the National Industrial Court to declare as illegal the certificate of registration issued to CONUA and NAMDA.
“The federal government will no longer tolerate a strike that does not pass through due process,” said labour minister Chris Ngige.
The union’s president, Emmanuel Osodeke, on Friday announced the suspension of the strike which began on February 14 in deference to the ruling of the court.
The labour minister further said “I’m not active in politics for now because I am facing national assignment. I will make my choice with the ballot.”
Mr Ngige said that the Nigerian government had introduced the school feeding programme to lure children engaged in child labour, back to school.
