Varsity Lecturers Says No Progress In Talks With Govt As Strike Enters 6th Day

The ongoing concern enactment by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has entered its sixth time with nary motion of progress, arsenic negotiations betwixt the national and the national authorities stay deadlocked.

Despite the involution of the House of Representatives, which has expressed readiness to mediate successful the dispute, ASUU maintained that determination has been nary connection oregon tangible enactment from the government.

The president of ASUU astatine Yakubu Gowon University, Abuja, Dr Sylvanus Ugoh, told LEADERSHIP yesterday that determination was nary advancement erstwhile helium was contacted connected the dispute. “There is nary update yet. Let’s spot by the extremity of the time if determination volition be,” helium said.

The enactment has already paralysed world activities nationwide, rekindling fears of different prolonged disruption successful Nigeria’s nationalist tertiary acquisition system.

In an effort to avert a full shutdown, the House of Representatives connected Tuesday resolved to wade into the situation betwixt the Federal Government and ASUU.

The solution followed a question sponsored by Sesi Whingan, a subordinate representing the Badagry Federal Constituency nether the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Whingan explained that the involution was aimed astatine uncovering a lasting solution to the recurring crises that person repeatedly crippled the assemblage system, noting that the House enactment was acrophobic astir the plight of students and the load placed connected parents, insisting that sustained dialog remained the lone way toward resolution.

The determination by the House came amid increasing hostility and unit from students, who person borne the brunt of the continued concern unrest.

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) issued a seven-day ultimatum to some ASUU and the Federal Government to resoluteness their differences oregon look wide protests crossed the country.

The pupil assemblage lamented that its members had repeatedly suffered disruptions to their studies owed to recurring disputes betwixt the 2 sides.

In its statement, NANS warned that Nigerian students would nary longer service arsenic collateral harm successful the ongoing standoff, urging some the authorities and ASUU to enactment responsibly and prioritise the aboriginal of education.