The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has finally come to an agreement with the Federal Government of Nigeria. The goodness comes after about 12hours and some minutes of meeting held between the both parties behind close doors in Abuja.
The Federal Governmant represented by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige assured of the Federal Government's dedication to immediately commence the payment of salary shortfalls and funding for universities'infrastructures.
The meeting is the third recouncillation meeting between both parties and it commenced Thursday afternooon and ended in the early hours of Friday morning. With this development, ASUU has agread to consider the suspen of their indefinite strike which started Sunday 13th August 2017
According to Premium Times, the leadership of ASUU, however, said though it accepted the proposal presented by the government, it will take the proposal to its members and get back to the government in a week.
After the meeting, the ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi said "Once we are able to resolve the contentious issues, we are willing to go back to our members in earnest and take the final decision on this action."
He further said "Now we have some concrete proposal that we will take back to our members for consideration."
Below are previous strike actions and date by ASUU
HISTORY OF ASUU STRIKE IN NIGERIA:
1999---5 months
2001---3 months
2002---2 weeks
2003---6 months(ended in 2004)
2005---3 days
2006---1 week
2007---3 months
2008---1 week
2009---4 months
2010---5months and 1 week
2011---3 months(ended in 2012)
2013---5 months 2 weeks (1day)
2017---3 weeks (5days) +
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