Miriam Nnoli 
The Federal Government through the Ministry of Education is currently meeting with members of the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) in Abuja.
The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, summoned the meeting on Wednesday, after threat by university lecturers to shut down over the alleged Federal Government’s failure to meet its demands.
The meeting which initially was scheduled for Monday but failed to hold and was thereafter postponed, is essentially to prevent another nationwide strike by the association
In attendance are representatives from ASUU led by its President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, past presidents of ASUU led by the immediate past president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi; Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission as well as top management staff of the Federal Ministry of Education among others.
The meeting has dissolved into a closed door session.
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It would be recalled that the university lecturers threatened to embark on a nationwide strike over what they described as the unwillingness of the Federal Government to honour the 2009 renegotiated agreement.
The notice was part of the resolutions reached at the national executive council meeting of the union, which was held at the University of Ibadan a weekend before.
