Labour and Employment Minister Dr. Chris Ngige is confident that academic activities in public varsities will resume next month.
Ngige gave the assurance based on the outcome of the Federal Government negotiation with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at last Thursdays parley.
According to the minister, parties will be back at the negotiating table today to resume discussions on the special assignment given to both sides at the last meeting.
Ngige expressed the hope that there will be breakthrough in discussions in todays meeting with the lecturers who have been on strike since March, adding that the government has met almost all the demands of ASUU.
Ngige said: “We have met about 98 per cent of the request of ASUU. Some five to two per cent is what you can call promissory notes.”
“So, I am very hopeful that by midnight today, there are some works we are supposed to get on to do. They also have some work they are supposed to do on their own side with their people.
Tomorrow (Tuesday), we will meet in the afternoon and we will compare notes. We will put everything on the table and compare. I believe that we might have come to the end of the strike when we meet.”
