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FG, ASUU shift meeting to Wednesday over planned strike

The proposed meeting between the Federal Government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), earlier scheduled to hold on Monday, has been shifted to Wednesday.

Emmanuel Osodeke, President of ASUU, confirmed that the meeting will no longer be held as announced by the minister of education last Friday.

However, no reason was given for the postponement of the meeting.

Public University lecturers under the auspices of ASUU had last week threatened to embark on a nationwide strike, over what they described as the unwillingness of the Federal Government to honour the 2009 renegotiated agreement.

The notice is part of the resolutions reached at the national executive council meeting of the union, which was held at the University of Ibadan a weekend before.

The demands of ASUU include welfare matters, funding for universities and the need to stop the proliferation of universities across the country

The planned meeting was to prevent another ASUU strike.

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