The proposed meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government was originally supposed to take place on Monday, but it has been rescheduled for today.
The ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, reportedly confirmed on Channels Television on Monday that the meeting, which the Minister of Education had announced on Friday, will not occur.
The meeting is now scheduled for Wednesday, August 28, though no explanation for the postponement was provided.
Following decisions made at the union’s national executive council meeting, which took place on August 19, 2024, at the University of Ibadan, public university lecturers threatened to go on a nationwide strike in protest of the Federal Government’s disregard for the 2009 renegotiated agreement.
ASUU is demanding that university funding be increased, welfare be improved, and the number of universities opening up nationwide be stopped.
