ASUU crisis worsens as... The lecturers’ union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities , ASUU, on Tuesday in Abuja, walked out on the joint National Assembly Committee on Education at a meeting. The meeting was also attended by Ministers of Education and Labour, Professor Ruqquayatu Ruf’ai and Emeka Nwogu respectively. The NASS joint committee on Education had called the aggrieved unions in the nation’s higher institutions for a dialogue on the way forward in their ongoing industrial action. The meeting was convened by the joint committee on education of the Senate and House of Representatives. The committee had invited ASUU, ASUP. Academic Staff Union of ASUU began on July 1. The committee had asked ASUU leaders to excuse it, while it interacted with ASUP and COEASU; which was viewed as a slight by ASUU. The representatives of ASUU left the National Assembly complex in annoyance, saying they were slighted.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:07:31 +0000