The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will on Thursday hold a crucial meeting with the federal government.
Thursday’s meeting, if held, will be exactly a week since the lecturers refused to show up for a meeting with the government delegation saying such meeting was “unnecessary.”
This Thursday’s meeting is at the instance of the ministers of labour and education and was communicated to ASUU in early hours of Thursday.
Persons expected to be at Thursday’s meeting are the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, and the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.
The President of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, confirmed Thursday’s meeting to reporters.
“We just received the notification of the meeting,” he said in a telephone interview on Tuesday morning. “Until Thursday, that is when we can say what would happen but we have
been invited for the meeting.”
A National Executive Council meeting of ASUU held last week had reviewed the government’s initial offer to some of the demands of the lecturers. At that meeting, the lecturers resolved to proceed with the strike which commenced on August 13.
According to a top ASUU official who pleaded anonymity, the lecturers rejected the federal government’s offer due to lack of “trust.”
Culled from PREMIUM TIMES
Thursday’s meeting, if held, will be exactly a week since the lecturers refused to show up for a meeting with the government delegation saying such meeting was “unnecessary.”
This Thursday’s meeting is at the instance of the ministers of labour and education and was communicated to ASUU in early hours of Thursday.
Persons expected to be at Thursday’s meeting are the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, and the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.
The President of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, confirmed Thursday’s meeting to reporters.
“We just received the notification of the meeting,” he said in a telephone interview on Tuesday morning. “Until Thursday, that is when we can say what would happen but we have
been invited for the meeting.”
A National Executive Council meeting of ASUU held last week had reviewed the government’s initial offer to some of the demands of the lecturers. At that meeting, the lecturers resolved to proceed with the strike which commenced on August 13.
According to a top ASUU official who pleaded anonymity, the lecturers rejected the federal government’s offer due to lack of “trust.”
Culled from PREMIUM TIMES
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