Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and other unions in tertiary institutions, who are currently on strike to embrace dialogue.
Osinbajo made the appeal during the 2022 International Workers Day celebration on Sunday in Abuja, with the theme, ‘Labour, Politics and the Quest for Good Governance and Development in Nigeria.’
ASUU and other unions in the Education sector, had embarked on a nationwide warning strike to press home their members’ demands.
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The lecturers’ demands include, funding of the Revitalisation of Public Universities, Earned Academic Allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) and promotion arrears.
Others are the renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FG Agreement and the inconsistency in Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS), among others.
Reacting, Osinbajo appealed to the warring parties to embrace dialogue, as the federal government is not unmindful of the anxieties of the students who have been affected as a result of the industrial action.
“We are not unmindful of the anxieties of our children and their parents who are plagued by thoughts of an uncertain future as they stay home, because their universities have been shut by an industrial action. I appeal to ASUU and the broader labour community to seek the path of dialogue”, he said.
