Strike: FG, ASUU To Meet Monday The Federal Government is to meet the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday with a view to getting the striking university teachers to suspend their industrial action. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, will lead the Feral Government’s team to address earned allowance and general university funding for infrastructure development. Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue disclosed this to newsmen on Friday in Abuja after a meeting of ASUU with members of the committee on implementation of Needs Assessment Report to Nigerian Universities. Suswan is chairman of the committee, inaugurated earlier in the day by Anyim. He said an agreement was reached on many of the issues under negotiation except the two concerning earned allowance and general university funding for infrastructure development. Suswan explained that after many hours of deliberation the meeting agreed on major issues except the two. “These are the outstanding issues, otherwise other issues have been agreed on and we believe that by next week we should be able to agree on all the issues and, probably, ASUU will call off the strike,” he said. He said that the committee would also meet with ASUU on Aug. 1 to address the issue of infrastructure deficit in universities, adding that the meeting would involve all the agencies funding projects in the universities. “If you go into our universities you will agreed with me that there are a lot of infrastructure deficit; so, we have agreed that all the funding agencies will meet with ASUU,” he said. He said the parties are expected to agree on modality for funding projects.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 10:33:35 +0000
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