The Federal Authorities, by means of the Federal Ministry of Schooling, has arrange a sub-committee to evaluation the calls for of the Educational Employees Union of Universities.
That is as each events agreed to reconvene by September 6, 2024.
These selections have been taken on the finish of a closed-door assembly, held on the Ministry of Schooling in Abuja on Wednesday.
The assembly, which lasted for 2 and a half hours, had in attendance the management of ASUU, the Minister of Schooling, Tahir Mamman, and different officers of the ministry.
Briefing newsmen on the finish of the assembly, Mamman stated a sub-committee had been set as much as evaluation the calls for of the union, and be certain that all gray areas have been ironed out and resolved.
On his half, the ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, expressed the hope that every one points can be resolved earlier than the September 6 assembly.
“We have now met to debate all the problems and evaluation them. We have now given the federal government between now and the following assembly to see what they must do. We consider within the curiosity of the Nigerian youngster and we might be defending their curiosity if the problems are resolved amicably,” Osodeke stated.
ASUU is in search of a complete overhaul of the college system, together with improved infrastructure, enhanced tutorial freedom, and a extra sustainable funding mannequin.
Different calls for of the union, embrace the discharge of revitalisation funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU settlement, and launch of earned allowances for college lecturers.
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