Strike: Varsity unions were not invited to last Thursday’s meeting -FG

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THE Federal Gocernment, Sunday, said that the meeting it convened on Thursday was only for the government team involved in the resolution of the face-off with the university-based unions that led to the ongoing strike.

Recall that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige had on Wednesday while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting said that the government team involved in the industrial dispute with the university-based unions would be meeting the next day (Thursday) for progress report on efforts so far made towards finding a truce.

But appearing on Channels Television, the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke had said that government excluded his union in the invitation for the meeting.

However, reacting to the allegation of exclusion, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Ngige explained that invitation to the meeting was only sent to the government team involved in resolving the impasse .

The Minister in a statement issued by Olajide Oshundun,

Head, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, noted that the meeting was to review efforts made so far towards an amicable resolution of the face-off with University workers.

The statement read: “The attention of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment has been drawn to an interview on Channels Television by the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke where he said that his union did not receive any invitation from the Federal Government to attend the meeting held last Thursday, June 23, 2022  at the Presidential Villa Abuja. 

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