The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has fixed a meeting for August 1st,2022.
It was gathered that a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the strike which enters its will be taken at the meeting.
Recall that ASUU on Monday, February 14, 2022, embarked on industrial action over what the union described as the failure of the government to address some of its demands.
The chairman of ASUU, Federal University of Technology, Minna chapter, Dr. Gbolahan Bolarin, confirmed the planned meeting to newsmen on Monday.
Bolarin said the meeting would be held either on July 30 or August 1, 2022.
“The NEC will be holding its meeting early next month (August). That should be August 1. The meeting might even be on July 30,” he said.
ASUU had cautioned the government against the proliferation of tertiary institutions and the failure to approve the deployment of the Universities Transparency Accountability System (UTAS)
The union had also insisted on the release of the White Paper of the visitation panels to universities and the release of revitalization funds for the development of universities, among others.
In a letter dated July 15 and addressed to chairpersons of the NLC in the states, Ayuba Wabba, the congress’ national president, and Emmanuel Ugboaja, general secretary, said the protest is aimed at getting “our children back to school and support our unions in Nigeria’s public universities fighting for quality education”.
They designated the Labour House in the federal capital territory (FCT) and secretariats of the NLC as the takeoff points for the protest.