ASUU begins nationwide strike over poor funding of universities

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has commenced strike.

Also the organised labour Sunday night shunned meeting organised by the Federal Government to resolve the impasse on the new minimum wage.

None of the labour leaders attended the meeting at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.

According to Vanguard, one of the key officers of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC said that the meeting was irrelevant as the only meeting they would attend was the one scheduled today for the signing of the report of the Tripartite Committee.

It was reliably gathered that labour leaders switched off the phone lines to avoid distraction from the government team.

It was reportedly gathered that the Federal Government has decided to punish some unions that would heed the directive of the labour centres to proceed on strike action Tuesday.