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Both parties held a meeting on Thursday.
The meeting between striking university lecturers and the federal government on Thursday did not resolve the contending issues but agreed to the setting up of a government committee.
This was stated by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Nasiru Fagge, in a telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES.
Mr. Fagge explained that Thursday’s meeting was ‘an inaugural meeting’ and that the head of the government negotiating team and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, stated “what he wants to do.”
He said the government delegation set up a sub-committee to source data from the National Planning Ministry on the contentious issues while the government’s meeting with the lecturers would continue on Tuesday.
The striking university lecturers demand that government fully implements the 2009 agreement with ASUU, while the government says it want’s to renegotiate some parts of the agreement.
The strike is currently in its fifth week as hundreds of thousands of public university students are kept out of class.
The lecturers, through their various zonal executives, have said that they would not return to class until government agrees to implement the 2009 agreement fully.
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