The Senate committee set up to address the industrial crisis embarked on by ASUU has revealed that some agreement have been reached between the Nigerian government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU on some of their issues except one which borders on the earned allowances of lecturers.

The Chairman Senate Committee on Tertiary Education, Senator Jibrin Barau, said after a meeting that commenced about 12 noon and ended around 8PM  that the academic union were going to make consultations with their members on the way forward and that the upper house was hopeful that they would return with good news.

The ASUU Chairman for the University of Lagos, (UNILAG), Mr Adelaja Odukoya, while explaining the reasons for their decision said the Federal Government had failed to deliver on its 2009 Agreement and 2013 MoU.

According to him, the government owes over 800 billion Naira funds which he said were meant to upgrade the university system, in attempts to make them globally competitive.

In a meeting of the Senate President with ASUU officials in Abuja, the Chairman of ASUU, University Of Uyo Chapter, Dr Aniekan Brown said that she was glad that the industrial action had enjoyed 100% compliance in line with the directive. She also said that the strike was “informed by the inability of the federal government to honour the agreement reached with ASUU on a number of issues, which you already know. The most important, being that the public universities are still underfunded.”

President Muhammadu Buhari recently appealed to union of Nigerian university lecturers to give government more time to sort out the shortfalls in salary payment and other related issues affecting the education sector.