Ngige Shifts Meeting With ASUU To 2pm

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige

The meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities earlier slated for 1 p.m today, Tuesday, February 22, 2022, has been shifted to 2pm by Dr Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment.

This was disclosed by the spokesperson of the ministry of labour and employment, Charles Akpan in Abuja.

Though Akpan did not explain why there was a change in meeting time, Punch learnt that the minister was trying to put things in order before attending to the union.

TORI had earlier reported that Ngige was scheduled to meet the National Executive Council of ASUU today at 1pm in his office at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Abuja.

The aim of the meeting according to reports was to initiate a renegotiation process between the Federal Government and ASUU.

ASUU on Monday, February 14, 2022, had declared a four-week total strike over the failure of the government to implement some of the agreements it made with the union.

Details later…