The House of Representatives has resolved to intervene in the on-going impasse between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government.
The Chairman, House Committee on Labour, Muhammad Wudil, said this when he and other house members received the protesting Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and its affiliate unions on Wednesday in Abuja.
The NLC and its affiliate unions were on a solidarity protest over ASUU’s unending strike to the National Assembly.
Wudil assured the protesting unions that the national assembly would invite all the stakeholders to see how the dispute could be resolved.
Presenting the report of the meeting at the plenary, Wudil said that the NLC made a seven-point demand, adding that the engagement with the congress was fruitful.
Earlier, the NLC Chairman, Ayuba Waba, said that they were in the national assembly to register their protest on the lingering ASUU strike.
He expressed the union’s support for ASUU, adding that Nigerian university lecturers were the least paid in Africa.
Wabba said if nothing was done after the protest, labour would embark on a three-day nationwide warning strike.