185-day-old strike: Again, FG, ASUU meeting ends in deadlock

The much-publicized meeting between the Federal Government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held on Tuesday has ended in a deadlock again with no end in sight to the lingering strike by the lecturers.

The striking lecturers had met with the Prof. Nimi Briggs Committee for about three hours at the National University Commission in Abuja in a bid to resolve the issues that led to the six-month-old strike.

Sources close to the  lecturers who attended the meeting, said the federal government delegation is yet to come up with any new offer on the table except to plead with the lecturers to call off the strike with promises that their demands will be included in the 2023 budget.

Persecondnews recalls that the university teachers had again rolled over the now six-month-old strike by four weeks following Federal Government officials’ failure to resolve the lingering ASUU crisis within two weeks as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

ASUU had on February 14, 2022 embarked on strike with the shutting down of the nation’s public universities over issues of poor welfare, failure to renegotiate earlier agreements signed, and the alleged imposition of the payment platform– IPPIS — by the government.

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