The Federal Government and the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), are in closed door meeting as part of efforts to avert the planned nationwide strike.
The meeting is holding at the office of the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman.
The minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu and other top officials in the ministry are in the federal government team.
The ASUU president, Emmanuel Osodeke, who led the union’s delegation told journalists that the meeting was to deliberate on lingering issues affecting the universities to avert the planned strike actions.
“There are a lot of issues that are outstanding within the system and we believe that before now, they would have been takwn care of,” Osodeke said.
‘The issues would have been resolved in line with the promise made by President Bola Tinubu and there will not be strike in the university system.
“We hope that this meeting will be able to resolve some of these issues so that we can move forward as a country as well as our university system,” he added.
Earlier, the minister of education noted that the meeting would provide an opportunity for both parties to deliberate on issues affecting the university system in Nigeria.
Mamman said that ASUU had earlier written to the ministry, detailing a number of issues and concerns affecting the universities and the union.
He said that the issues required interactions between the union and government officials to avert any strike proposed by the union.
