Outcome of meeting between Asuu and Federal Government

A meeting between the Nigerian
government and university
lecturers has ended without a
resolution of the nationwide strike
called by the union on Monday.
The Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, began a
nationwide strike this week, over
demands for improved funding of
universities and welfare of
lecturers.
An earlier meeting with the
government was also unsuccessful.
Thursday’s meeting began at
exactly 3:42 p.m. in Abuja.
In his opening remark, the
Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige,
said ASUU did not follow the
proper procedure before starting
the strike.
“There must be a mandatory letter
of 15 days to labour, to education
before going on strike,” he said,
referring to the ministries of
labour and education.
“All agreements are supposed to
be domiciled in ministry of labour
in order to track implementation
as agreement gives room to
renegotiation,” Mr. Ngige.
In his response, the president of
ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, said Mr.
Ngige had taken side with his
education colleague, Adamu
Adamu.
He said ASUU informed relevant
ministries before embarking on
strike.
“There was a letter dated July 10 to inform the
major stakeholders. In the last 10 months,
we’ve written 10 letters trying to reach out to
relevant stakeholders after suspending the
seven days warning strike in November last
year,” he said.
“This is not a fresh action and we are open to
suggestions.”
The meeting later went into a technical session.
In the end, the ASUU chairman said the strike
continued and that the union would revert to
the government next week.



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