{"id":74389,"date":"2025-08-28T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74389"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:18:17","slug":"fg-convenes-inter-ministerial-meeting-to-defuse-asuu-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/28\/fg-convenes-inter-ministerial-meeting-to-defuse-asuu-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Convenes Inter-Ministerial Meeting to Defuse ASUU Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government on Thursday convened an inter-ministerial committee meeting in Abuja to address the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), crisis and avert a potential nationwide strike.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, the meeting brought together representatives from the Ministries of Finance, Labour and Productivity, the Budget Office, the Solicitor-General, and the Salaries and Wages Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The committee is tasked with finalising a counter-proposal to ASUU\u2019s demands, which will be submitted to the Yayale Ahmed Committee for further negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Alausa disclosed that several issues raised by the union have already been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that the Federal Government has released the first tranche of about \u20a6150 billion to begin implementation, including the payment of earned allowances and postgraduate supervision allowances.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured that the long-awaited 25% wage adjustment would be implemented once government finances improve.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasising the administration\u2019s commitment to ending a dispute that has persisted for more than 16 years, the minister urged ASUU members to exercise patience.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike past hurried agreements that collapsed, he said this round of talks would be \u201cwholesome and holistic\u201d to ensure lasting peace in the university system.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention comes days after ASUU members staged protests across campuses, warning of a \u201cmother of all strikes\u201d if their long-standing demands remain unmet.<\/p>\n<p>The union continues to push for improved funding for public universities, enhanced welfare for academic staff, and the full implementation of past agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Observers note that a breakthrough in the current negotiations could prevent further disruptions across more than 150 public universities, safeguarding the education of nearly two million students from the effects of a nationwide shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; The Federal Government on Thursday convened an inter-ministerial committee meeting in Abuja to address the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), crisis and avert a potential nationwide strike. Led by the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, the meeting brought together representatives from the Ministries of Finance, Labour and Productivity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74391,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74389\/revisions\/74391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}