ASUU Strike: FG Resumes Talks With Lecturers Tomorrow
The Federal government is expected to resume talks with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday (tomorrow) on how to resolve the issues smoldered in the two-month-old strike embarked upon by lecturers.
In a chat with The Punch in Abuja on Friday, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, however, said the union was not optimistic about the prospects of an early resolution of the industrial dispute.
Reacting to a question on whether there had been any fresh development with regard to the resolution of the dispute, Ogunyemi said:
Last week, he had expressed the union’s frustration with the government’s failed promises.
He explained that in order to forestall a situation where ASUU and the government would restart negotiations on arrears of earned academic allowances, both sides had agreed that “it would be mainstreamed into the 2019 budget.”