ASUP said it will convene a meeting of polytechnic lecturers very soon.
Efforts at resolving the ongoing indefinite strike by university lecturers failed on Tuesday as the lecturers’ union leaders walked out on lawmakers trying to intervene in the crisis.
The lecturers have been on strike for over one week over government’s failure to implement previous agreements with it
The lecturers’ union, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Tuesday in Abuja, walked out on the joint National Assembly Committee on Education at a meeting.
The meeting was also attended by Ministers of Education and Labour, Professor Ruqquayatu Ruf’ai and Emeka Nwogu respectively.
The NASS joint committee on Education had called the aggrieved unions in the nation’s higher institutions for a dialogue on the way forward in their ongoing industrial action.
The meeting was convened by the joint committee on education of the Senate and House of Representatives.
The committee had invited ASUU, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and the Academic Staff Union of Colleges of Education (COEASU) to a dialogue to on how to resolve the issues that triggered the strikes.
The strike by ASUP, Nigerian polytechninc lecturers, entered into its eight week; while that of ASUU began on July 1.
The committee had asked ASUU leaders to excuse it, while it interacted with ASUP and COEASU; which was viewed as a slight by ASUU.
The representatives of ASUU left the National Assembly complex in annoyance, saying they were slighted.
One of the members, who declined to give his name, told journalists that they had another appointment to attend to.
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