After several hours of meeting the Federal Government and leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU failed to reach conclusions as the talks were rescheduled for September 6, 2024.
However, the late Wednesday night meeting agreed on the modalities worked out by the government to ensure an amicable resolution of all disputed issues.
The meeting which was at the instance of the Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, met the ASUU delegation led by its President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke.
Others in attendance were the Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu, and the Acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, among others.
The meeting, held behind closed doors, was a last-ditch effort by the government to prevent the university lecturers from embarking on the planned indefinite strike at the expiration of the 21-day notice given about 10 days ago.
Some of the issues in dispute include revitalisation fund for public universities, the payment of outstanding earned academic allowances, and the release of withheld salaries, promotion arrears, and third-party deductions for ASUU members.
Other issues include the stoppage of illegal recruitments, the proliferation of public universities, abuse of university laws, regulations, and processes, and the removal of universities from the Treasury Single Account, TSA and new IPPIS, vis-a-vis the autonomy of universities.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
