Meanwhile, A breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Congress of Nigerian University Academics, has dissociated itself from the ongoing strike in Nigerian universities.
The union reiterated that it was not a part of the decision to embark on the ongoing strike by ASUU.
The union also announced its independence as a union of academics in Nigerian universities.
It stressed that it believed that strikes had a crippling effect on the Nigerian university system.
It added that the negative effects of the strikes had always been greater than their positive outcomes.