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The lingering faceoff between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be reaching its final face with Tuesday’s meeting.
A senior Professor who is a top member of the ongoing negotiation excessively informed TheNewsGuru that government ‘seem to be waking up to appreciate the enormity of challenges it faces on the matter.’
He said, “The body language of the minister and other government functionaries at the meeting seem different. It is unlike the puff and huff of old and the grandstanding. I think we may be reaching the end.
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“My hope is, beyond the language, that none of the two parties between ASUU and government derails. I am positive – in fact, optimistic that something tangible would come out of this meeting,” the Professor told our correspondent.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, alongside stakeholders had entered into a special closed-door session over the lingering strike.
Those attending the meeting include the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar Rasheed; registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede; Emeritus Professors Peter Okebukola and Nimi-Briggs; alongside all vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors of federal universities.
The minister had excused members of the media to excuse the stakeholders who attended the meeting and lamented the failure of ASUU to call off its strike despite interventions by the government.
ASUU had embarked on a strike on Monday, February 14,2022 following what the union tagged as failure of the government to meet lingering demands.