The Federal Government on Monday was locked in a series of meetings as part of the last-ditch effort to end the five monthly old strikes embarked upon by the Academic Staff of University Union (ASUU).
While the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu and Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rasheed held a meeting with the Vice-Chancellors of Universities at NUC, Abuja, another high-level meeting of Goverment officials was also held at a different location.
Rasheed speaking during the 2022 retreat for Vice-chancellors of Nigerian Universities and Directors of Inter-university centres, said some of the Vice-Chancellors were to go with him for another meeting on ways to resolve the ongoing ASUU strike.
The Federal Government on Monday was locked in a series of meetings as part of the last-ditch effort to end the five monthly old strikes embarked upon by the Academic Staff of University Union (ASUU).
While the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu and Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rasheed held a meeting with the Vice-Chancellors of Universities at NUC, Abuja, another high-level meeting of Goverment officials was also held at a different location.
Rasheed speaking during the 2022 retreat for Vice-chancellors of Nigerian Universities and Directors of Inter-university centres, said some of the Vice-Chancellors were to go with him for another meeting on ways to resolve the ongoing ASUU strike.
Nigerian Tribune also gathered that the leadership of ASUU would be meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.
Rasheed said: “Some Vice-Chancellors and I will go for a meeting later today in an effort to resolve the lingering ASUU Strike.”
The NUC boss who lamented that the over 5-months-old strike embarked upon by ASUU has had adverse implications on the future of University education and students in Nigeria sympathised with the Vice-chancellors on the trauma the situation has put them through.
He particularly called on the VCs to support the effort of the Federal Government to resolve the campus-based Union strike actions.
According to him, the retreat was aimed at identifying lasting stability in tertiary institutions, the effort of the government to end the ongoing strike and how the universities spend their resources now that they are closed among others
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