Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said the Federal Government had been meeting with the Academic Union of Universities (ASUU) over its lingering strike and assured Nigerians that the dispute with the lecturers would be resolved soon.
Ngige said this on Wednesday while briefing the press after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the State House in Abuja.
According to him, contrary to insinuations that the government was not engaging with ASUU, there had been a series of meetings between all parties, and the next one was scheduled for Thursday to resolve the face-off.
The former governor also dismissed talks that the Federal Government had a different payment table for trade unions in tertiary institutions.
Ngige noted that it might be impossible to raise the payment table because other unions, even in the health sector, might kick.
He said although the Government was not afraid of handling the situation, it had to operate within the available resources.
The Labour Minister also promised that the 13-year-old ASUU challenge involving a 2009 negotiation agreement and payment platform issues were being renegotiated and would be resolved before the end of the current administration.
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