A source said the Minister of Education, Prof. Rukayyatu Rufa’i and her Labour counterpart, Emeka Wogu, met with the Senate Committee on Education yesterday over the strike.
It was learnt that the meeting resolved to set up a task force to work out the modalities for addressing the issues at stake.
The source added that the resuscitation of Visitation Panels and appointment of governing boards of polytechnics featured at the meeting.
The implementation of Consolidated Tertiary Salary Structure (CONTISS) was also said to have been discussed.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Uche Chukwumerije, reportedly expressed concerns about unending strikes in tertiary institutions.
The source said Prof Rufa’i briefed the Senate on how ASUU declared its indefinite strike to compel the Federal Government to implement the agreement reached with the union in October 2009.
Academic activities were paralysed yesterday in most universities as ASUU began its strike.
Academic activities were grounded yesterday at the University of Ibadan (UI).
Most students, who were on campus for early morning lectures, were surprised that none of their lecturers showed up.
Although all lecture rooms were open, but no academic activities took place in any of them.
The disappointed students retired to their residential halls after waiting in vain for lectures.
When our reporter visited the campus yesterday, nothing was happening there.
Addressing reporters yesterday, ASUU’s National Treasurer Dr Ademola Aremu said the strike order was fully complied with at UI.
The university community, he said, was carried along in the effort to reposition the nation’s education sector from collapse.
According to him, the UI Vice Chancellor was aware of the strike.
The branch’s ASUU Secretary, Dr Ayodeji Omole said: “We had thought that with someone like Dr Goodluck Jonathan, education would be better off. But we are worse off.”
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