Strike: FG-ASUU meeting holds today

The Federal Government will today meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) while the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and allied institutions would have their meeting on Friday with the FG. The meetings are geared towards resolving the ongoing strike by the various unions.

Confirming this, the union’s National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview, said that the meetings would resume this week. We are resuming the meeting this week and we have an invitation this week. The renegotiation meeting will only end if we have called off the strike.”

Similarly, the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions’ National President, Mr Ibrahim Mohammed, told our correspondent that SSANU’s meeting would be on Friday.

“Yes, we are meeting with the FG on Friday,” he said.