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        STRIKE UPDATE (as at March 8):  "There will be no resumption until FG Implement 2009 Agreement", ASUU Insists. Nigeria’s minister of education, Adamu Adamu, on Monday, gave a three-month deadline to the newly inaugurated committee saddled with the responsibility of renegotiating the 2009 agreement between the government and the university workers’ unions. The Unions include the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions (NASU), and the National Association of Academic Technologists. This comes as the leadership of ASUU insists the ongoing three-week-old nationwide strike will continue until “whatever the government wants to do with the agreement is completed and an acceptable implementation commences.” Mr. Adamu, who spoke during the inauguration of the renegotiation committee in Abuja, said he expected the exercise to be conclud...

          The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will meet on Tuesday to find an amicable solution to the contentious issues that made the strike take effect.           Recall that ASUU had declared a one-month warning strike starting from Monday, February 14 to press home their demands.           Both the federal government and ASUU have been trading blames since the later declared industrial action as each is accusing the other of insincerity. However, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, who is the Conciliator-in-Chief of the Federal Government has scheduled to meet with the leadership of ASUU on Tuesday in his office. This was disclosed by Mr Charles Akpan, Deputy Director/Head Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.          The letter read: “The Honorable Minister for Labour and Empl...