November 14th, 2020

We’ll explore other options if ASUU remains stubborn, says FG

The Minister of Labour and Employment , Dr Chris Ngige, has a
showed optimism that the prolonged strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities will be resolved by next week when the FG team meets the union leaders again.
He , however, said if the matter was not resolved by then, he would explore the provisions in the labour law and other channels .
The Federal Government had initially appealed to the union to end the strike .
The union had on March 24 2020 embarked on an indefinite strike over the failure of the Federal Government to keep to the 2019 Memorandum of Action between them as well as the lingering disagreement over the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System that ASUU rejected.