ASUU, SSANU, Others Meet With FG Reconstituted Committee On Renegotiation of 2009 Agreement

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities ( SSANU) and various other unions operating within the universities will meet the reconstituted committee on the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement with university-based unions.

ASUU’s National President, Emmanuel Osodeke, who disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja at the weekend, said the committee would meet in the coming week to deliberate on issues.

Recall that in October,  the Federal Government had announced the reconstitution of a committee to renegotiate the 2009 agreements between the government and various university-based unions.

The committee has a time frame of three months.

This is the fourth renegotiation committee set up by the government since 2017, with previous committees led by Wale Babalakin in 2017, Munzali Jubril in 2020, and Nimi Briggs in 2022.

Recall that in 2020, ASUU embarked on a nine-month strike.

The strike, which was called off in December 2020, led to the inauguration of a Federal Government committee led by Prof. Munzali Jubril.

In 2021, the Munzali committee working with ASUU came up with recommendations in a draft agreement.

On June 16, 2022, the Nimi Briggs Committee submitted a draft agreement to the government, which it said was a product of collective bargaining.