In Abuja, the federal government of Nigeria communicated the expectation that the one-month cautioning strike set out upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on February 14, would before long be finished.
ASUU called its individuals out on the advance notice strike to constrain the Federal Government to address their requests, some of which had been waiting beginning around 2009.
Sen. Chris Ngige, the minister of Labour and Employment communicated the expectation of truncation of the advance notice hit when he talked with newsmen toward the finish of an assuagement meeting between the public authority and the association.
Ngige said the gathering settled on many issues and a course of events was booked for the execution of the arrangements.
As per him, ASUU authorities consented to get back to their individuals with offers made by the public authority and return to him before the week runs out.
He noticed that a considerable lot of the things in the 2020 Memorandum of Action (MOA) had been managed thoroughly, while some were being tended to.
“We have only one or two areas that are new. One of the new areas is the renegotiation of the Conditions of Service, which is called the `2009 Agreement’.
“An agreement was reached in 2009 that their Conditions of Service would be reviewed every five years. It was done in 2014.
“We started one in which the former UNILAG Pro-Chancellor, Wale Babalakin (SAN), was chairing the committee.
“After Babalakin, Prof. Manzali was in charge and the committee came up with a draft document, proposed by the Federal Ministry of Education and ASUU.
“Today, Manzali’s committee has become defunct because many of the people in the committee are no longer pro-chancellors,” the minister explained.
Ngige said that a new team had been constituted to take a second look at that document.
“This is to make sure that some of the allowances are not against the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC) fixed rates for wages and allowances.
“If you propose allowances that do not comply with NSIWC rates, the government will not be able to accept it.
“So, it is important that they do the right thing from the beginning so that whatever the committee presents can be approved by the Federal Executive Council,’’ he said.
