The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman has said the Federal Government will meet with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) on Monday to address the demands of the university teachers the Minister said this today when he appeared on Beyond 100 days programme.
ASUU had given the government a 21 – day ultimatum at the end of its National Executive Council meeting at the University of Ibadan last week During the programme, the Minister confirmed that the government had received the notice of strike from ASUU leadership and assured that the government was working to prevent another strike in the university system.
Mamman said the meeting will look at the demands of the union and fashion out ways to meet them in order to avoid another industrial action he said we got a correspondence of notice of strike from ASUU on Monday.
We met yesterday to review those issues and we are going to be meeting with ASUU on those issues. Some of the issues are historic in nature; when you talk about 2009 agreement this is something that dates back to almost 1981 when they started he said.
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