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ASUU STRIKE:STRIKE TO BE RESOLVED IN TWO WEEKS,FG REASSURED


The Minister Of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has dismissed the media report insinuating that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered him on Tuesday to hand off negotiations with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), describing it falseHe made the clarification Wednesday while speaking with State House reporters.Ngige said “the truth of the matter is, there is no such thing. It’s just a categorical untruth. There is nothing like hands off.”


On the whether the two weeks directive by the President to resolve the issue was realistic, the labour minister said he proposed one week to resolve the issue but the Minister of Education Adamu Adamu volunteered to resolve the issues with ASUU in two weeks.Ngige, who said he hoped the issue would be resolved at the stipulated time, advised the unions to table their case before the Ministry of Education whom the President had directed to resolve the issue.


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