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By Henry Umoru
The Senate has moved successful to nip successful the bud, the lingering occupation betwixt the Federal authorities and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and arsenic portion of moves to halt the ongoing two-week informing strike.
The Senate Committees connected Labour, Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND volition beryllium gathering with the Minister of Education, Mr Tunji Alausa and the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission ( NUC ), Professor Abdullahi Yusuf Ribadu, connected Tuesday adjacent week.
The planned gathering with the Federal Government and NUC volition travel aft today’s gathering with the enactment of ASUU at the National Assembly.
Speaking with journalists connected Friday successful Abuja connected resolutions adopted astatine the extremity of a closed-door session, the associated committee had with the enactment of ASUU, the Chairman, Senate Committee connected Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, Senator Muntari Dandutse, APC, Katsina South, said that the committees had heard from ASUU and were precise acceptable to code its grievances to the due quarters.
He said, “After gathering with the nationalist enactment of ASUU connected the mode retired of the existent onslaught and the looming indefinite one, we person resolved to convene a precise important gathering with applicable authorities agencies , peculiarly the Minister of Education and Executive Secretary of NUC connected Tuesday oregon Wednesday adjacent week.
” We besides resolved to interface with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT, Abuja ) , Barrister Nyesom Wike connected the request to halt enactment connected tampering with University of Abuja land.”
Earlier, earlier the closed-door gathering , the National President of ASUU, Professor Christopher Piwuna, told the committee members that ASUU improved backing of the University by the national government, arsenic contained successful earlier agreements between it and the national government, is the mode retired of the onslaught action.
Sustainable concern successful education, according to him, remains the lone way to ending strikes and raising the planetary ranking of Nigerian universities, adding that the ongoing two-week informing onslaught stems from longstanding issues that day arsenic acold backmost arsenic 2011.
He said, “We engaged the Federal Government for 8 years without tangible results. The Yayale Ahmed committee report, submitted successful December 2024, was ignored until this concern enactment began.”
On backing delays, Prof. Piwuna, who revealed that though the National Assembly approved N150 cardinal for universities, lone N50 cardinal has been released truthful far, said that the magnitude remains stuck astatine the Ministry of Education, wherever the curate allegedly intends to stock it among universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, contempt abstracted allocations for those institutions.
He cautioned that the N150 cardinal approved specifically for universities indispensable beryllium utilized for the intended purpose.
The station ASUU Strike: Senate wades in, meets Education Minister Tuesday appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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