On the issue of compulsory five-year service licensing of doctors being proposed by the House of Representatives, the association vehemently condemned the bill.
The leadership crisis rocking the Labour Party deepened on Tuesday as it suspended a factional leader, Lamidi Apapa, its national deputy chairman (South).
SSANU has urged President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to pay the N50 billion outstanding earned allowances to universities and inter-university centres.
The doctors are calling for 15 per cent annual budgetary allocation, in line with the 2001 Abuja declaration for healthcare financing in Africa.
The union members staged the protest following the ‘No Work No Pay’ policy and court order that mandated the lecturers back to classes.
They criticised the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, for being against the demands of university lecturers.
The lecturers said they only stopped the teaching component of their condition of service and not the research and community services part during the strike.
The union in the university had, after its congress on November 4, asked its members to quit teaching over their withheld salaries.
NASU wants President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to pay salary arrears for the four months their strike lasted.
Iyorchia Ayu, the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, will begin a 14-day trip to Europe today (Wednesday).
