BREAKING NEWS: ASUU STRIKE!!!!

- ASUU has rejected the offers made by the federal government in a bid to stop the ongoing strike by the university lecturers

- The minister of labour, Chris Ngige, had earlier said that the federal government had released N15.4 billion to the public universities

- Ngige added that President Buhari had approved N20 billion to offset arrears of the 2009 to 2012 verified earnings by the university lecturers

- The union, however, insisted the federal government should release at least one tranche of N220 billion revitalisation fund spread over four quarters of 2019

There seems no end in sight to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as the lecturers have rejected the offers made to them early this week by the federal government, Premium Times reports.

The minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, had earlier stated on Tuesday, January 8, at a meeting with the leadership of ASUU that the labour dispute with the university teachers was on the verge of being resolved.

He listed the fresh concessions made by the federal government to ASUU.