FG and ASUU: Nigeria University Union Strike Still Lingers

 

The  long lingered ASUU Strike keeps lengthing because the Federal Government and ASUU has not come to agreement. 

The overdue understanding between ASUU and the Federal Government is highly needed because of the effect on the Educational section and the General Econmy of the Country.

However,Parents and Wellmeaning Nigerians has appealed with ASUU to call off the strike to enable School Children resume academic work.

A meeting between the Federal government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU ended in a deadlock on Tuesday August 16, with no end in sight to the lingering strike by the academic union.

 

The striking lecturers met with the Professor Nimi Briggs committee today for about three hours at the National University Commission in Abuja in a bid to resolve the issues that led to the six-month and counting strike. 

According to the striking lecturers who attended the meeting, the Federal government delegation did not come with any new offer to the table except to beg the lecturers to call off the strike with promises that their demands will be included in the 2023 budget.