Report says the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, and the striking Non-Academic Staff Unions of Nigerian Universities are further torn apart over claims and counter claims that Thursday’s meeting to ensure a suspension of the industrial action embarked upon by the workers was inconclusive.
The unions representatives walked out of Thursday’s meeting after several hours, refusing to grant interview to journalists, but reacted off camera that the meeting failed to address their demands.
However, a statement by the Minister of labour, Chris Ngige on Friday, and signed by Deputy Director, Press, in the ministry, Charles Akpan, said that the meeting it held on Thursday with the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU did not end in deadlock.
The Minister said Contrary to media reports, agreements were reached by both parties with timelines, which were documented as Memorandum of Understanding, MOU.
Ngige added that five issues discussed had agreements, while only one had a proposal, which was a government proposal for the unions to go back and discuss with their organs.
He said the MOU was given to leaders of the two unions to go and consult their members with a view to calling off the strike latest by Monday, February 15, 2021.
Meanwhile, the President of the Senior Staff of Nigerian Universities, Mohammed Ibrahim, insisted that their demands have not been met, which include; delisting them from the Intergrated Payroll and Personnel Information Systematic, IPPIS, equitable sharing formula of 40 billion naira earned allowance and payment of benefits of retired staff members among others.
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