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Federal Government To Continue Negotiation With ASUU On
Posted on January 5, 2019 AuthorPrince Soyiga Samuel Adeshina

Federal Government To Continue Negotiation With ASUU On

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The Federal Government of Nigeria says it will continue negotiation process with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday to resolve ongoing industrial action embarked by the striking unitary university lecturers.

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Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment said this in a statement signed on Saturday in Abuja by Mr Samuel Olowookere, Director of Press, in the ministry.

According to the statement, the meeting is in furtherance to efforts at resolving the on-going industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

“The Minister of Labour and Employment Sen. Chris Ngige is scheduled to hold a meeting with the Executive of ASUU.

“The conciliatory meeting is scheduled to hold on Jan. 7, at Minister’s Conference Room by 3:30 pm prompt.

Reports have it that ASUU commenced an indefinite strike on Nov. 5, 2018 over certain demands based on agreement reached with government in 2009.

One of the demands is the replacement of Dr Wale Babalakin as the chairman for the government renegotiating team of the 2009 ASUU/Federal Government Agreement.

Other issues are non-payment of earned allowance, funding of revitalisation of the Nigerian universities, implementation of needs assessment report, poor funding of state universities, among others.

Recall that as part of efforts by the Federal Government of Nigeria to end the strike, it commenced meetings with Academic Staff Union of University leadership on Nov. 15th, 2018 followed

Not again!


How many months old strike?

The standard of education in naija is way below zero mark. What do you expect anyways? When their children are not affected.

They better reach a final decision oo
Cuz house haf taya person oo
By the way, I heard Buhari appropriated 161bn for all tertiary institutions...na true??

kingemi:
They better reach a final decision oo
Cuz house haf taya person oo
By the way, I heard Buhari appropriated 161bn for all tertiary institutions...na true??

yes it's true