ASUU-Federal Government Meeting Rescheduled to August 28

The proposed meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been rescheduled to August 28, according to a highly placed source within the National Executive Council of ASUU. This comes after the union threatened a nationwide strike over the government’s failure to honour the 2009 renegotiated agreement.

ASUU’s demands include improvements in varsity workers’ welfare, university funding, and halting the proliferation of universities across the country. The meeting was initially scheduled for Monday but has been pushed back to the 28th of this month.

In response to ASUU’s ultimatum, Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, noted that most of the issues of contention dated as far back as 1981. He, however, assured that letters of invitation had been sent to the leadership of the Union and other organisations, and that their grievances were being attended to.

According to the Minister, most of the issues raised by ASUU are being attended to, and he cited the example of the issue of exit from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, which has since been resolved by the President. He attributed the delay in implementing this directive to bureaucracy, but expressed optimism that some of these issues would be discussed and resolved during the meeting.

The Minister also appealed to ASUU to be considerate in their actions and be open-minded in their approach at the negotiation table, so that the interests of all parties would be properly represented.

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