FG Meets With ASUU Over Strike

Federal Government of Nigeria has met with the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU).

Gatekeepers News reports that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige on Tuesday met with the leadership of the ASUU.

Tuesday’s meeting was the first since the university lecturers declared their one-week warning strike last week, over what the union termed as the Federal Government’s refusal to honour its agreement to implement the Memorandum of Action signed with them in December 2020.

ASUU maintains that issues such as the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and that of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS), the non-payment of academic earned allowances, and university revitalisation still form a critical part of the reason for the latest strike.

Ngige on his part insisted that the government is doing its best, and is surprised that the lecturers embarked on the latest action.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government and ASUU to honour the Memorandum of Understanding to end the ongoing warning strike in the interest of students and the education sector in Nigeria.

During their plenary on Tuesday, the House further mandated the Committees on Labour, Employment and Productivity, and Tertiary Education and Services to liaise with the relevant ministries and stakeholders to address the outstanding issues that led to the current warning strike.

The resolutions followed a motion moved by Dozie Nwankwo from Anambra State. The motion was titled, ‘urgent need to address the frequent strike actions by ASUU,’

Gatekeepers News reported that ASUU embarked on four-week warning strike last week.