Varsities To Reopen January – Ngige.

The Minister of Labor and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, says the Academic Activities in Nigeria Universities will resume in January, 2020.

He says the compromises between the Academic Staff Union of Universities [ASUU] and the Federal Government had reached 98 percent, also adding that it remains only two percent to be finally done.

He stated this on Monday in Alor, Idemili South local government area of Anambra State, during the launch of Ngige’s free medical outreach at the Community’s Health Center.

According to Ngige; ”We have met about 98 percent of the request of ASUU. The remaining 2 percent is what you can call promissory notes.

”So, I am very hopeful that by midnight today, there are some works we are supposed to get on to do. They also have some works they are supposed to do on their own side with their people.

”Tuesday, we will meet in the afternoon and we will compare notes. We will put everything on the table and compare. I believe that we might have come to the end of the strike when we meet tomorrow. It is a journey of a thousand miles which you will have to take one step first. Tomorrow, all things being equal, we will agree now to agree because we were disagreeing before.

”We disagree to agree and agree to disagree formerly. But tomorrow, I hope we will agree to agree. Once we do that, schools we re-open in January”, the Minister announced.

However, Ngige has said that the free medical outreach that was launched in Alor on Monday, was also stretched to neighboring communities such as Abatete, Oraukwu, Ideani and Nnobi among others.

He said people with different ailments like hepatitis, eye problems, to mention just a few should proceed to get treatments free of charge, adding that about fifteen [15] medical Doctors in different fields would handle the cases at the Health Center.