The meeting between the leadership of the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) and the minister of labour and employment Senator Chris Ngige ended a Tuesday night without a call off of the on going strike.

The meeting held at the minister’s conference room, ministry of labour and employment, federal secretariat, Abuja took significant steps towards the resolution of the issues raised by ASUU.

Particularly, the meeting agreed on the forensic audit of the sum of 30 billion naira earlier given to ASUU on 2010 and further agreed on monthly remittance to ASUU while the audit lasts.

The minister assured members of ASUU; and Nigerians that government is already at work to resolve all outstanding issues in line with the resolve of the Buhari administration to avoid any disruption of universities’ academic calendar. The meeting continues on Thursday, august 17, 2017.

sourced from AITNEWS