FG meets ASUU, seeks end to strike

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige yesterday
met the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) to find solution to the ongoing strike action declared by
the union on Monday.

A statement by Samuel Olowookere, Deputy Director Press in the
ministry, stated that the meeting which held at minister’s office
took significant steps towards resolution of issues raised by
ASUU.

According to him, the meeting agreed on the forensic audit of
the sum of N30 billion earlier given to ASUU in 2010 and further
agreed on monthly remittances to ASUU while the audit lasts.

“The minister hence wishes to assure members of ASUU; indeed all
Nigerians that government is already at work to resolve all
outstanding issues in line with the resolve of the present
administration to cast any form of disruption of universities’
academic calendar into the dustbin of history,” he said.

He added that the meeting would continue tomorrow.

Meanwhile, The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has
backed ASUU in the industrial action.

The union describes ASUU’s action as “Struggle to restore sanity
to Nigerian Universities and the education sector.” The union in a
statement yesterday by its Secretary General, Anderson Ezeibe
called on government to quickly commence the implementation of
agreements entered with ASUP to forestall an impending crisis in
the polytechnic sub sector.

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige yesterday
met the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) to find solution to the ongoing strike action declared by
the union on Monday.

A statement by Samuel Olowookere, Deputy Director Press in the
ministry, stated that the meeting which held at minister’s office
took significant steps towards resolution of issues raised by
ASUU.

According to him, the meeting agreed on the forensic audit of
the sum of N30 billion earlier given to ASUU in 2010 and further
agreed on monthly remittances to ASUU while the audit lasts.

“The minister hence wishes to assure members of ASUU; indeed all
Nigerians that government is already at work to resolve all
outstanding issues in line with the resolve of the present
administration to cast any form of disruption of universities’
academic calendar into the dustbin of history,” he said.

He added that the meeting would continue tomorrow.

Meanwhile, The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has
backed ASUU in the industrial action.

The union describes ASUU’s action as “Struggle to restore sanity
to Nigerian Universities and the education sector.” The union in a
statement yesterday by its Secretary General, Anderson Ezeibe
called on government to quickly commence the implementation of
agreements entered with ASUP to forestall an impending crisis in
the polytechnic sub sector.