Again, ASSU, FG meeting ends without an agreement

The meeting between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has once again ended without any agreement.

ASUU national president, Biodun Ogunyemi told Journalists at the end of Tuesday’s meeting in Abuja that negotiations were still ongoing.

He said both parties were yet to reach a concrete decision.

Abiodun said, “For now, we have started to discuss. We are yet to reach any concrete decision. Once we have more information, we will make ourselves available to the press.”

“The union will reconvene very soon to continue negotiations.”

Tuesday’s meeting, the third in a row was held at the instance of Adamu Adamu, minister of education, who wanted to find a lasting solution to the ongoing strike by the university lecturers.

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ASUU embarked on an indefinite strike over poor funding of Nigerian universities and non-implementation of previous agreements by government on November 4.