Strike: Details of FG, ASUU meeting emerge

– The meeting between the federal government and ASUU over the ongoing strike was inconclusive

– The union’s president disclosed this after the meeting

– He said both parties are yet to reach any concrete decision

The meeting between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ended without any conclusion on Tuesday, December 4.

Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU national president, while speaking with newsmen at the end of the closed-door meeting in Abuja noted that negotiations were still ongoing.

He said both parties were yet to reach a concrete decision.

“For now, we have started to discuss. We are yet to reach any concrete decision. Once we have more information, we will make ourselves available to the press.

“The union will reconvene very soon to continue negotiations,” he said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the meeting held at the instance of the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu was to find a lasting solution to the ongoing strike by the university lecturers.

ASUU had on November 4, embarked on an indefinite strike over poor funding of Nigerian universities and non-implementation of previous agreements by the government.

Meanwhile, the president, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Danielson Akpan has urged both parties to have a common ground so that the universities can reopen.

He said they must put the interest of the country and Nigerian students above any other thing.

Meanwhile, TRACKNEWS previously reported that ASUU said that the federal government’s decision to enforce no-work-no-pay policy against the striking lecturers did not bother its members, adding that the latter were not losing sleep over it.

Ogunyemi, said this on Sunday, December 2, stating that the union was not intimidated by the policy, adding that it had been a recurring threat since the military era.