The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has refused to attend a
\nmeeting with the Federal Government scheduled for today.<\/p>\n
ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi, confirmed to Channels Television that the
\nunion will not attend the meeting.<\/p>\n
According to him, ASUU has met, discussed the new offer from the FG and
\nsubmitted a proposal to the government.<\/p>\n
He said consequently, the union will only honour another meeting after
\nreceiving a reply to their proposal from the government.<\/p>\n
The meeting was confirmed in a statement issued by the Deputy Director,
\nPress, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Samuel Olowookere, late on
\nMonday, which was called by Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator
\nChris Ngige, following the failure of ASUU to get back to the Federal
\nGovernment after both parties met on August 17, 2017.<\/p>\n
Others expected at today\u2019s meeting were; the Ministers of Education and
\nFinance, Mallam Adamu Adamu and Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the Chairman, National
\nIncome Salaries, and Wages Commission, Executive Secretary, National
\nUniversities Commission and the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress
\n(NLC) Comrade Ayuba Wabba.<\/p>\n
The Union declared an indefinite strike two weeks ago, citing the failure
\nof the government to implement agreements reached with the union in 2009.<\/p>\n
The National President of the union, Dr. Biodun Ogunyemi, announced this
\nat a meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) of ASUU in Abuja.<\/p>\n
He said during the strike, there shall be no teaching, no examination and
\nno attendance of statutory meetings of any kind in any of the union\u2019s
\nbranches across the country.<\/p>\n
Dr. Ogunyemi declared a \u2018total, comprehensive and indefinite\u2019 nationwide
\nstrike after a nationwide consultation with members at an emergency NEC
\nmeeting held on Saturday, August 12, 2017.<\/p>\n
He explained in a statement issued after\u00a0Saturday\u2019s<\/span><\/span>\u00a0meeting that their The ASUU president added that related demands made by the union were yet Channels TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has refused to attend a meeting with the Federal Government scheduled for today. ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi, confirmed to Channels Television that the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
\ndecision followed the failure of the government to fully implement the
\n2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement and the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).<\/p>\n
\nto be addressed, which was why they resolved to embark on an indefinite
\nstrike from Sunday, August 13, 2017.<\/p>\n