The Federal government on Wednesday said that efforts are underway to ending the protracted dispute between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government.
The Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige, disclosed this today while responding to questions from State House Correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja.
Ngige assured that efforts were on to resolve the protracted ongoing strike and the disagreement between the FG and ASUU and other university based unions.
ASUU is on strike over payment platforms created by the Federal government.
According to the Minister, contrary to speculations that the government was not engaging with ASUU, Ngige said that there have been series of meetings between all parties with the next one coming up on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Ngige denied planning different payment table for all the trade unions in tertiary institutions.
However, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had insisted on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) it created, claiming that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) was a way of short-changing them.
Also, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions (NASU), also had Universities Peculiar Personnel Payroll System (UPPPS), as their own payment platform.
But the Government claimed that the UTAS had failed three integrity tests in March.
