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The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities have met over the threat by the ASUU to embark on another industrial action concerning issues affecting universities.
The parley held yesterday at the Minister of Education’s office in Abuja.
The ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said the meeting became imperative as the present administration had spent one year in office without addressing issues affecting the university system.
Osodeke explained that both parties were asked to set up committees to look into the 10 demands ASUU listed in a letter it wrote to the Federal Government on Monday.
He said, “We have not decided on anything yet but we only created committees to look into our demands. There are some things they also asked us to do. We will be meeting in the next two weeks again.
“We have started the process and our prayer is that we resolve it for the interest of our young men and the interest of the nation.’’
Speaking about the meeting, The education minister, Tahir Mamman, said that consultations would commence immediately to overcome the challenges in the university.
Mamman said: “We’ve had a very good meeting and a very productive one. We’ve discussed progress on how to ensure that the system works well and a lot of the issues we talked about are issues we all inherited and ongoing. So, we discussed them all without exception and we have a consensus on the way forward.
“A lot of consultations will continue on some information we don’t have which are beyond the scope of the ministry and which will require us to connect with our colleagues in other ministries."
