The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government are to continue talks Monday (tomorrow) on the most proficient method to determine the impasse over the two-month-old strike set out upon by speakers.


National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, affirmed the improvement in a phone meet with SUNDAY PUNCH, in Abuja, on Friday.


He, however, said the union was not optimistic about the prospects of an early resolution of the industrial dispute.


In response to a question on whether there had been any fresh development with regard to the resolution of the dispute,


Ogunyemi said, “I’ am afraid nothing new. I understand they will be meeting us on Monday. Let’s wait and see if they take a reasonable step; it will determine our next line of action. Until then, let’s wait and see


.” The ASUU president had in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH last week said members of the union were tired of government’s failed promises.


He said, “Last year, they promised to release the funds but they did not until November when the strike began. Our members are saying they do not want promises again; what they want is action, implementation or disbursement of funds.


“The government must act in a way to convince the union that the agreement has not been set aside. To show that the government has not set aside the agreement, they should release one tranche


.” He explained that in order to forestall a situation where ASUU and the government would restart negotiations on arrears of earned academic allowances, both sides had agreed that “it would be mainstreamed into the 2019 budget.” Ogunyemi also said, “We are going to have a discussion on when to commence renegotiation because there are still grey areas. If the government can substantially address these issues, we will be more confident to face our members on the way forward. For now, the signals we are getting is that our members do not actually want to accept this government proposal from us.”


Members of ASUU went on strike November 4, 2018 to interest for enhanced subsidizing of Universities and execution of past concurrences with the legislature.


The association is additionally looking for the usage of the 2009 FGN/ASUU assentions, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU; 2012 and 2013) and Memorandum of Action (MoA, 2017), among others. The university teachers are also demanding the release of the operational licence of the Nigerian University Employees Pension Company.


The Director of Press at the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Samuel Olowookere, could not be reached when one of our correspondents tried to get the reaction of the Federal Government on the issue But a source in the ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told SUNDAY PUNCH that ASUU should be blamed for the delay in reopening the universities.


The source added that the FG had showed commitment to the ASUU’s demands and that it was better to start from what the FG had offered than to halt negotiation.


“The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, had told the leadership of ASUU that the FG would accept many of their demands but flexibility is needed to implement the rest. They left the meeting happy and said they would discuss the progress with their other organs. But they had delayed in moving forward.


The blame is no longer in on the FG. ASUU should come forward with what they think of the FG’s commitment so far.”

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Weather you call off the strike or not, am going back to school .

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Stop lying
Your union members didn't decide the strike
ASSU leadership instructed them to

what Are they meeting for?

they should calm down , we're not In a hurry to go back to school yet

never ending meetings to give us hope

Make una do mad jare

holuwamosey:
Fg and ASUU are mad

They are very mad.

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We dey watch sha

feel like giving up

raphieMontella:
what Are they meeting for?

they should calm down , we're not In a hurry to go back to school yet

if they call off, stay in ur house na, u can extend ur own strike. skul is not by force ok

raphieMontella:
what Are they meeting for?
they should calm down , we're not In a hurry to go back to school yet

Set of useless people.
Both FG and de union are selfish.
Playing with peoples future and giving them senseless hope with their meetings

NO MORE MEETINGS AQAIN ABEQ.

TOMORROW SHOULD BE EPISODE 8 OR 9 OF THIS SERIES.

raphieMontella:
what Are they meeting for?

they should calm down , we're not In a hurry to go back to school yet

something is wrong with you upstairs

Thanks for this information, I think it will come in handy in the future.

Ttipsy:
if they call off, stay in ur house na, u can extend ur own strike. skul is not by force ok

You really shouldn't have answered that otondo
Na Mumu hin be

D matter dn tire me....Wat d need for hosting meeting wit FG since they wont call off...there is no need to continue wasting tym n giving false hop to students knowin d meeting wont yield any result. The way things r goin slf d strike fit reach april

they should call it off quickly.... I want to fornicate abeg.... before person go turn back to Virgin

This strike will end in June

They just dae use children future dae play X and O