The Federal Government is optimistic that the choices agreed during its tripartite plus meeting with university-based unions will begin to bear fruit next week.
Mr Olajide Oshundun, the ministry’s Head of Press and Public Relations, stated this in an Abuja statement on Friday.
Sen. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, said this to reporters at the end of a meeting on the ongoing strike by unions in the education sector, according to Oshundun.
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) are on strike at the moment.
The Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the National Association of Academic Technologists are also on strike (NAAT).
The labor movement is striving for greater benefits and working conditions.
“We had cordial and fruitful discussion; we looked at the issues dispassionately and reached some agreements, to the satisfaction of everybody in attendance”, Ngige said.
According to him, the conversation was shifted out of the Labour Ministry to make it tripartite plus because the government brought in certain interested parties in an attempt to settle conflicts.
The Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC), led by the Sultan of Sokoto; Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III; and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), led by Rev. Sampson Ayokunle, NIREC co-chairman, were among the parties, he added.
“We discussed. Everybody was happy. We reached some agreements and we hope that by next week, those agreements will start maturing.
“ The four unions will also go and brief their members, so that they can call off the strike,” he said.
Some issues, such as the 2009 agreement, which impacts the renegotiation of condition of service and wage review, could be resolved next week, according to the minister.
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