There is still no hope that striking lecturers will resume anytime soon.
ASUU's president, Dr Nasir Issa Fagge, declared that they have met with the FG ten times since the strike action commenced and there is no going back until the implementation of the agreement signed in 2009.
The issues involved in the current industrial dispute include: Funding requirements for revitalising the Nigerian universities; Federal Government Assistance to State Universities; Progressive increase of annual budgetary allocation to education to 26 per cent between 2009 and 2020, and Earned Allowances.
Others are: Amendment of the pension/retirement age of academics on the professorial cadre from 65 to 70 years, Establishment of the Pension Fund Administrator, Governing Council; Transfer of Federal Government landed properties to universities as the setting up of research and development units by companies operating in Nigeria as well as teaching and research equipment.
We await GEJ's decision on all these demands.............................
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