FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UNIVERSITY LECTURERS MEETING DEADLOCKED

However, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, speaking on the stalemated meeting  said government’s discussion with the association will continue next week  and appealed to them to put the interests of student as who are at the receiving end into consideration.

Penpushing further reports that President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Biodun Ogunyemi, said the union have tendered its request and also said the meeting has been adjourned till next week.

He said, no date has been fixed but “we will communicate the date to you tomorrow,” he told waiting journalists, adding that, the union was forced to call the strike after its plea for the implementation of the 2009 agreement fell on deaf ears.

“Our meeting with the Education Minister in May and September to remind him about Federal Government promises to implement the agreement yielded no result,” he said.

Penpushing also reports that, Ogunyemi earlier said the Government had promised to take action on issues raised in the last MOU signed by the two parties but “it does appears that federal government is dribbling the union.”