FG To Meet ASUU Today, Others On Friday

• According to reports, the committee would meet Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday

• “Since the strike is still on, the meeting cannot end. We do not have any problem with the committee…”

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Federal Government will on Monday resume talks with representatives of unions in the nation’s universities.

The Prof Nimi Briggs committee set up by the government to renegotiate the 2009 agreement was expected to end its three months’ timelines given on June 7, 2022.

However, according to reports, the committee would meet Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday (today) while the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and allied institutions would have their meeting on Friday.

“We are meeting the FG committee in Abuja on Monday,” a source in ASUU told Punch. The union’s National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview, also disclosed that meetings would resume this week.

“We are resuming the meeting this week and we have an invitation this week. The renegotiation meeting will only end if we have called off the strike.

“Since the strike is still on, the meeting cannot end. We do not have any problem with the committee. When we do, we will communicate with the committee,” he said.

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Similarly, the Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions’ National President, Mr Ibrahim Mohammed, also confirmed that SSANU’s meeting would be on Friday.

“Yes, we are meeting with the FG on Friday,” he said.

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