A meeting scheduled for today, December 9, between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has been abruptly suspended.
ASUU’s president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, said the meeting was postponed because the time frame given to the union to consult its members is too short.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, had said that ASUU would call off the nine months old strike today, a claim ASUU’s president faulted.
“The truth of the matter is that a ‘gentleman agreement’ was reached at the last meeting in which ASUU agreed to call off the strike before December 9, 2020, and the Minister, in turn, agreed that once the strike is called off, he would get a presidential waiver for ASUU to be paid the remainder of their salaries on or before December 9,” Ngige had said in a statement on December 8.
But ASUU claimed that it never gave such assurances to the minister.
