ASUU strike to linger as union ignores meeting with FG

Hopes of having Nigerian university students return to classrooms anytime soon may have been threatened as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday refused to attend a meeting with the Federal Government.

A statement issued by the Deputy Director, Press, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Samuel Olowookere, on Monday, confirmed a meeting called at the instance of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, after ASUU allegedly failed to get back to the Federal Government after both parties met on August 17, 2017.

The meeting was to be attended by the Ministers of Education and Finance, Mallam Adamu Adamu and Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the chairman, National Income Salaries, and Wages Commission, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission and the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Ayuba Wabba.

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However, ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi, on Tuesday confirmed to Channels Television that the union will not attend the meeting. His reason is that ASUU has met and discussed the new offer from the Federal Government as well as submitted a proposal to the government.

According to him, ASUU can only attend another meeting with the Federal Government after it must have received a reply to their proposal from the government.

ASUU two weeks ago went on an indefinite strike over the failure of the Federal Government to fulfill the agreements it entered with the academic union eight years ago.

 

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