Strike Update: Senator Anyim, To Meet ASUU On Monday

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, will on Monday meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities to address earned allowance and general university funding for infrastructure development.
Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue disclosed this to journalists on Friday in Abuja after a meeting of ASUU with members of the committee on implementation of Needs Assessment Report to Nigerian Universities.

Suswan is chairman of the committee, inaugurated earlier in the day by Anyim.
He said an agreement was reached on many of the issues under negotiation except the two concerning earned allowance and general university funding for infrastructure development.
Suswan explained that after many hours of deliberation the meeting agreed on major issues except the two.
“These are the outstanding issues, otherwise other issues have been agreed on and we believe that by next week we should be able to agree on all the issues and, probably, ASUU will call off the strike,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the governor as saying to journalists.
He said the committee would also meet with ASUU on August 1 to address the issue of infrastructure deficit in universities, adding that the meeting would involve all the agencies funding projects in the universities.