The Federal Government has reconstituted a team to renegotiate the 2009 agreements with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday by the ministry’s Director of Press, Mr. Ben Goong.
He stressed the need to speedily bring to conclusion all outstanding issues on the 2009 agreements in order to achieve the desired industrial peace in the nation’s universities.
The reconstituted 2009 FGN/University-Based Unions Agreements Re-negotiation Team is headed by the Pro-Chancellor of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Prof. Emeritus Nimi Briggs.
The members are Lawrence Ngbale, Pro-Chancellor, Federal University, Wukari, Prof. Funmi Togunu-Bickersteth, Pro-Chancellor, Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, Senator Chris Adighije, Pro-Chancellor, Federal University. Lokoja, and Prof. Olu Obafemi, Pro-Chancellor, Federal University of Technology, Minna.
Others are – Prof. Zubairu Iliyasu, Pro-Chancellor, Kano State University of Science and Technology and Matthew Seiyefa, Pro-Chancellor, Niger Delta University.
The minister added that the team would be inaugurated on Monday.
The varsity lecturers embarked on a one month warning strike on February 14, 2022 to protest the federal government’s refusal to honour previous agreements signed by both parties.
