Government may review a few of its hard decisions which have been opposed by the Academic Workers Union of Universities, ASUU, inflicting the latter to proceed its strike regardless of pleas by students,parents and concerned Nigerians.
The Federal Government may reverse its resolution to not pay the striking university lecturers, who’ve been at home for the past seven months.
The federal government, on Tuesday, at a meeting with pro-chancellors and vice-chancellors of universities, constituted a 14-member committee, to amongst others, review its resolution to not pay the striking lecturers for the period they’ve been at home and other contending issues.
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The Director of Press and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Bem Goong, who briefed newsmen on the decisions reached at the meeting, mentioned the committee will even look into different contending areas of the renegotiation with ASUU over the ongoing strike.
Goong, nonetheless, said the difficulty of University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, because the payment platform for university lecturers, was not discussed at the meeting, adding that it was also not a part of the issues the 14-member committee would deal with.
Mr Goong, who didn’t reveal the length of time given the committee to accomplish its activity, said the report of the committee would be submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari in no distant time for consideration.
