Chris Ngige, Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment who spoke to newsmen after the reconciliation meeting with ASUU yesterday December 10th, disclosed that they have reached partial agreement with ASUU on the strike which has lingered for weeks.

According to Chris Ngige, the partial agreement they reached with ASUU on the strike, is a step up in the Federal Government’s effort to meet the demands of the union.

“We have finished our deliberation. I am happy to report that we touched some areas of understanding in implementation from the memorandum of action which we agreed to in 2017. Some of these areas we have substantial compliance and some other areas have not been fully dealt with. Like the issue of shortfall in salaries of some federal universities’ workers and lecturers, ASUU has given a list to the accountant-general’s office and we have agreed that by Wednesday that list should be cross-checked by the presidential initiative on continuous auditing. So, the accountant-general’s office is to get back to us by Wednesday.

“We also have the issue of earned allowances, revitalisation, these are issues of 2009 agreement and partial implementation and we have agreed on the modus operandi to look into the fund situation, this is due to low revenue on the part of government.

“We have agreed on what we are going to do to make sure that the outstanding amount is handled in a way that all parties will be properly accommodated. We also discussed the issue of state universities and agreed also that even if education is on the concurrent list, the universities should be properly funded and staffed so that we do not produce half-baked students from those universities. In realisation of this, the ministry of education will set up a committee, that would engage the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, and the minister of education has taken steps in that direction to formalise the interaction. Thus discussion are fruitful and we do hope that in the next adjourned date we would have had the requisite result on the few agreements reached today.” he said

The National president of ASUU, Abiodun Ogunyemi, who also spoke to newsmen said;

“Our own understanding is that we heard promises made on the part of government, we shall await the report on all the issues, which they have made the promises. Only after that, we can get back to our members to take a decision.”

Source : https://www.collegegist.com.ng/p/461/ASUU-strike-quot-strike-might-be-called-off-soon-we-have-rea

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Partial?

please who are this guy's deceiving?

why the meeting everytime ASUU go on strike after the meeting they won't fulfill the promise? this are our fathers joking with the future of students, delaying them for noting,what a country what a government.and it amazes me the same youth will rally around this set of pple instead of us coming together and make head way and say enough is enough.

if ASUU calls off the strike soon,it will confirm the fact that they only go on strike for their own benefit,if u look at the partial agreement they touched as stated by ngige,its mainly an upward review of lecturer salary,allowance,no much emphasis on improving university facility,equipment,hostel and things that affect the student.ASUU GOES ON STRIKE FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT