- Another meeting between the federal government and the ASUU ended without an immediate resolution of the dispute
- The union had embarked on the strike over the poor funding of Nigerian universities and non-implementation of previous agreements
- However, Chris Ngige said the federal government is taking all necessary steps to address ASUU’s demands.
Another meeting ended on Monday night, December 10, without an immediate resolution of the dispute between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Premium Times reports .
Legit.ng gathered that the meeting which was held at the federal Ministry of Labour was to find a lasting solution to the ongoing strike by the university lecturers.
Since the strike commenced on November 4, at least four other meetings have been held between both parties before Monday’s meeting.
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The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, while addressing journalists, said the meeting has been adjourned to December 17, adding that the federal government is taking all necessary steps to address ASUU’s demands.
”The strike is five weeks old today and it is not in anybody’s interest. We will ensure the needful is done,” he said.
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Legit.ng previously reported that the former interim national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, condemned the ongoing strike embarked upon by the ASUU.
He said the incessant industrial action by the members of the union had been largely responsible for poor quality graduates, whom, he lamented, are vagabonds and unemployable.
Akande added that the lecturers who embark on industrial action were the cause of the unemployment situation in the country “because they produce unemployable graduates.”
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