ASUU strike: Ngige optimistic Universities will resume soon

Lawal Shereef
The federal government on Friday has continued negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to put an end to the eight-month-old strike action. ASUU embarked on a nationwide strike on March 23 to demand “revitalisation allowance”, earned academic allowances, renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, visitation panels, among other demands.

The federal government, last Friday, had made some concessions to the striking university lecturers through their union which they promised to get back at the government for. 
The government offered N65 billion to Nigerian universities to address some of the lecturers’ demands. The government also agreed to pay the lecturers their outstanding salaries using an older payment platform, GIFMIS, different from the controversial IPPIS. The N65 billion seeks to address the issue of earned allowances and ”revitalisation of universities”. Before the government introduced IPPIS to the union last year, the lecturers were receiving their pay through the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS).

!!Recall that DSNA earlier reported that ASUU branches are divided on whether to call of strike
The meeting
The Friday meeting, which was scheduled for 11 a.m. started at 2:25 p.m. with the labour minister, Chris Ngige, presiding. He said the government gave the union some offers last week and “they promised to consult with their members and get back to us”.

“We pray for a fruitful discussion that will bring our children to school,” he said. In his remark, the national president of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, said the position of the union members had been documented and will be presented to the minister. Mr Ngige declared the commencement of the technical session of the meeting at 2:35 p.m.

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