After so many expectations, Nigerian students enrolled in federally funded universities would still not be able to attend classes as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) was unable to come to a resolution to stop the strike.
Tuesday’s meeting between ASUU and the administration failed to produce a resolution to the strike. As a result, the six-month-old lecturers’ strike at public universities is expected to continue.
The government-instituted Professor Nimi Briggs Committee and the striking academics met on Tuesday at the National University Commission in Abuja in the hopes of breaking the deadlock.
The meeting took place at the National Universities Commission and was headed by the Emeritus Professor, Nimi-Briggs.
“The meeting ended with no end in sight. There were no new matters to discuss”, a source within the ASUU NEC confirmed
The spokesperson of the ministry of education, Ben Goong, said the minister would brief the press on Thursday.
ASUU had started a 4-week total and comprehensive strike on February 14, 2022, to hammer home their unmet demands on the federal government.
Some of the demands made by the lecturers include the payment of promotion arrears, adoption of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) as the preferred payment option rather than the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), and funding for the revitalization of public universities, which totals N1.1 trillion.
Others include the rectification of discrepancies in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System and the revision of the 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement (IPPIS).
To give the administration time to fulfil all of its objectives, the union decided to extend the industrial action by a further two months on March 14.
Following a previous extension on March 14 due to the federal government’s alleged lack of sincerity, ASUU extended its ongoing strike by another 12 weeks on May 9 to allow the government ample time to adequately resolve all outstanding issues.
ASUU President during an interview with the Ladies of Your View shared that the Federal Government had accepted to implement its University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) as the platform to be used for the payment of salaries of university lecturers but yet nothing.
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