Minister for Education, Adamu Adamu has disclosed that a 14-man panel was set up on Tuesday to resolve the protracted strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Adamu said the lingering strike action has caused him anguish and “internal turmoil,” stressing that he had done everything in his power to resolve the dispute but to no avail.
According to the minister, the government was determined not to repeat the mistakes of signing an agreement it cannot implement.
A 14-man panel was set up yesterday to resolve some of the “contentious issues”.
The committee, headed by Adamu, was mandated to look at the no-work, no-pay policy and the lecturers’ conditions of service.
It will report to President Muhammadu Buhari in a matter of days.
The decision was reached after a closed-door meeting with pro-chancellors and vice-chancellors of federal universities.
Director of Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, Benjamin Goong, said the committee report would be ready in a few days.
The members include Prof Olu Obafemi, Prof Nimi Briggs, Udo Udoma, Bashir Dalhatu, Prof Kayode Adebowale (University of Ibadan), Prof Kabir Bala (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria) and Prof Lilian Salami (University of Benin).
Others are Prof Charles Igwe (the University of Nigeria, Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Is-haq Oloyede and representatives of the academies of letters, science, medicine and social sciences.