The tripartite plus meeting convened by the Federal Government with the striking university based unions last night ended without any concrete agreement for the workers to go back to work.
In fact, the four university based unions that are on strike rebuffed all the government plea for them to suspend the strike while efforts are made to address the contentious issues..
At the meeting between the federal government team, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, theSenior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, the Non-Acasemic Staff Union of Educational Institutions, NASU and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, as well as identified interest groups and Civil society organizations, over the on-going industrial actions in the Universities was held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja,
It was meant to prevail on the striking workers to accept a deal of calling off their strike while efforts are being made to resolve the dispute.
However, the unions refused to back down from continuing the strike saying that there was nothing on ground from the government side to warrant that the reopening of Schools.
Although ASUU President refused to speak to journalists on the outcome of the meeting, one of the union members said that there was nothing new except that the government team wanted them to call off the strike which they rejected.
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