The Federal Government has continued its negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as the strike by the lecturers enters its fourth month.

A meeting between the striking lecturers and the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee, however, ended without a concrete agreement as members planned to reconvene within 24 hours to consider a draft agreement.

Talks between both parties were held on Monday at the Nigeria University Commission (NUC) in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

A senior member of the union who attended the meeting told Channels Television that they reached some agreements with the Federal Government, but members had to break and reconvene within 24 hours to consider the new terms in the draft agreement.

The Federal Government set up the committee led by Professor Briggs on March 7 with a three-month mandate to renegotiate the 2009 ASUU/Federal Government agreement.

The government had tasked the committee to ensure the renegotiation brings an end to the ongoing industrial action by the university lecturers.

Three months after it was inaugurated, the committee met with the lecturers but also failed to reach a final agreement that could end the strike that has crippled academic activities across government-owned universities.

ASUU embarked on a nationwide strike on February 14 over the adoption of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) as the payment system in the university sector.

Members also decried the poor funding of universities, non-payment of salaries and allowances of some of their colleagues, as well as the inability of the government to pay earned academic allowance to lecturers, among other issues.

Since the industrial action began, several negotiations between the union and the government have ended in deadlock – a situation that was condemned by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS).

https://www.channelstv.com/2022/06/14/fg-continues-talks-with-ASUU-as-strike-enters-fourth-month/

What do you expect,we all fed an illiterate to be our National leader,how do we expect the country to move forward

Said it before.
We need selfless leaders that will make laws to favor the masses. You can't claim to be serving the people, be feeding from Govt coffers & abandon our public universities to send your kids abroad.
&same kids would come back to be employed by Govt rather than establish in the private sector.

There is a law that prohibits anyone who did not serve NYSC from being employed by Govt or to work in public service.
Until a similar law is enacted for people who did not, or their kids did not attend our Govt universities, these incessant ASUU strikes will never end.

Foreign-School-Graduate Children of our patriotic leaders...

For how long?

WibusJaga:


Said it before.
We need selfless leaders that will make laws to favor the masses. You can't claim to be serving the people, be feeding from Govt coffers & abandon our public universities to send your kids abroad.
&same kids would come back to be employed by Govt rather than establish in the private sector.


Foreign-School-Graduate Children of our patriotic leaders...

Which law says who did not serve on NYSC cannot be employed in government or public sector? What about those with exemption letter? I need to understand more about such a law. Show me link to that.

WibusJaga:


https://www.nairaland.com/7145154/stella-oduah-forged-certificate-nysc

Seen but NYSC exemption letter will perfectly fit in in such a place in the case where one is above the service year. I have someone who is so bothered as he is overage - above 30.

Fourth Month

This is so horrible

If you like, vote for any APC member

Una go hear am...

Please ASUU should go on eternal strike

Fvck fg

WibusJaga:


Said it before.
We need selfless leaders that will make laws to favor the masses. You can't claim to be serving the people, be feeding from Govt coffers & abandon our public universities to send your kids abroad.
&same kids would come back to be employed by Govt rather than establish in the private sector.


Foreign-School-Graduate Children of our patriotic leaders...

only obi would change things.

The strike will so be over ... I practically asked a lecturer and he said ..they are on the concluding part of it ....so let be hopeful...

This strike will likely cost students a session.
I have never seen a govt. as unfeeling as the govt. of today. So unfeeling and wicked.

Yes, during previous administration there's strike but it started after the 2nd semester for the year, so didn't affect much.