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THE Federal Government might decide to compensate the university instructors who have been on strike for the previous seven months while staying at home.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, or ASUU, may extend its strike in spite of appeals from students, parents, and worried Nigerians if the government decides to review some of the difficult decisions it has made that have been challenged by the ASUU.
The government, on Tuesday, at a meeting with pro-chancellors and vice-chancellors of universities, constituted a 14-member committee, to among others, review its decision not to pay the striking lecturers for the period they have been at home and other contending issues.
The Director of Press and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Bem Goong, who briefed newsmen on the decisions reached at the meeting, said the committee will also look into other contending areas of the renegotiation with ASUU.
Goong, however, said the issue of University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, as the payment platform for university lecturers, was not discussed at the meeting, adding that it was also not part of the issues the 14-member committee would tackle.
Mr Goong, who did not reveal the duration of time given the committee to accomplish its task, said the report of the committee would be submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari in no distant time for consideration.
Source; 1960Nobs.Ng
