The National Executive Committee of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will commence a two-day meeting at the University of Lagos, Akoka, today.
The meeting will finalise the union’s decision on an impending strike.
They will make the final decision on the strike – to be reached by voting – known at the end of the meeting on Sunday.
The union had expressed grievances over the failure of the Federal Government to fulfil some of the agreements it made as far back as 2009.
ASUU had on November 15, 2021, given the Federal Government a three-week ultimatum over the failure to meet the demands.
The lecturers threatened to embark on another round of industrial action following the alleged “government’s unfaithfulness” in the implementation of the Memorandum of Action it signed with the union, leading to the suspension of the 2020 strike action.
On the heels of the union’s renewed agitations, the co-chairmen of the National Inter-religious Council, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar III, and the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Dr Samson Ayokunle, the President Muhammadu Buhari last month over the lack of implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding the government signed with ASUU in 2009 and others.
At the meeting, Buhari said the government remained committed to fulfilling the promises made to ASUU. The President also stated that he had mandated Ngige, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, and his (Buhari’s) Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, to look into the demands of the union.
But Osodeke in an interview with one of our correspondents insisted that the Federal Government could not be trusted despite the promise of the President.
