The federal government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are to meet today, Tuesday, in another attempt at resolving issues that triggered the strike by university teachers.
The national president of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said the union will have a meeting with the Federal Government today, to address the issues.
Osodeke disclosed this Monday while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. He said the union was willing to call off the strike if the Federal Government agreed to its demands at today’s meeting.
He said, “If we go into that meeting tomorrow and the government says, what you have bargained for, we are willing to sign, the strike will be called off.”
Osodeke condemned what he described as fraudulent activities which the government used the university unions rejected Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system to commit.
He said, ‘’We have been shouting all along that IPPIS is a fraud, we have told them that for 16 years they siphoned our money with IPPIS, they punished our members because of it. Now, they know, some foreign bodies forced it on the people.’’