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On Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari, in a bid to end the seven-month strike, promised to make further consultations with relevant stakeholders.
The President made a commitment to further engage relevant stakeholders to help bring the protracted strike by university lecturers to an end via a statement signed by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity.
The statement is titled ‘ASUU Strike: President Buhari meets with pro-chancellors of varsities, promises further consultations.’
The President said without necessarily going back on what is already established policy, “I will make further consultations, and I’ll get back to you.”
Professor Nimi Briggs led the Pro-Chancellors to the meeting. He told them that they will be meeting Buhari in three capacities: “As President and Commander-in-Chief, as father of the nation, and as Visitor to the Federal universities.”
Briggs cited the recent listing of the University of Ibadan among the first 1,000 universities in the world, noting despite the seven-month strike “the future of the university system in the country is good.”
Prof Briggs commended the Federal Government for concessions already made to the striking lecturers, including the offer to raise salaries by 23.5 per cent across board, and 35 per cent for Professors.
He, however, asked for “further inching up of the salary, in view of the economic situation of the country.”
The Pro-Chancellors also asked for a reconsideration of the No-Work, No-Pay stance of the government, promising that lecturers would make up for time lost as soon as an amicable situation was reached and schools reopened.
Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Opiah, said all the concessions made by the Federal Government were to ensure that the industrial action came to an end, but ASUU has remained adamant.
Source: punchng.com
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