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End In Sight For ASUU Strike As FG Reviews ‘No-work No-Pay’ Policy

The federal government yesterday established a tactical committee to evaluate the no-work, no-pay policy that the striking lecturers have been fighting against in an effort to eventually end their standoff with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The lecturers’ organization maintains that before returning to work, its members must be paid for the time they were on strike.

The committee was established in response to a meeting that the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, had with vice chancellors, provosts, and chairs of councils.

The meeting, which was held in private, was an effort to end the seven-month strike by teachers at public universities.

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Ben Goong, the Federal Ministry of Education’s director of press and public relations, revealed this to media following the meeting, which lasted more than two hours.

He stated that the committee must also look at the issue of raising university lecturers’ wages and find practical answers.

The 14-man committee’s timeline was not specifically stated by the ministry’s spokesman. But he added that the committee will soon present its conclusions and that President Muhammadu Buhari would receive the report for consideration.

In a renewed effort to put an end to the continuing ASUU strike, the federal government met with the vice chancellors and provosts of its universities.

Source: Leadership

Lucky Ibeakanma

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