FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, ASUU HOLDS THIRD RECONCILIATION MEETING

The Federal Government is set to hold another reconciliation meeting with officials of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Abuja.

According to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the meeting which was earlier scheduled for 11:00 am today (Thursday 7th September, 2017), has been stepped down to 1:00 pm.

The adjusted time was to afford some key players expected at the meeting a little break, following a similar meeting with the National Association of Resident Doctors, which ended this morning.

ASUU has been on strike since August 14, 2017 over unpaid arrears and demands for improved infrastructure in the universities.

A reconciliation meeting with the Federal Government August 17 had failed to resolve the dispute, but fresh undisclosed offers were made to the lecturers.

Another reconciliation meeting held on August 29 also ended in deadlock, as ASUU insisted on seeing the government act on their demands.

The third meeting, however, comes a day after the non-teaching staff unions of Nigerian government universities resolved to embark on an indefinite strike.

They are demanding the immediate payment of earned allowances, as well as a review of the universities governance system.

culled from twitter.com/channelstv