The meeting is coming on the heels of the expiration of a two-week ultimatum the Joint Action Committee, JAC, of SSANU and NASU issued to the Federal Government to pay them their four months withheld salaries or they will shutdown universities.
But President Bola Tinubu in October last year granted amnesty to the university workers and directed that four months of the withheld salaries should be paid. While the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has been paid their four months withheld salaries as directed by President Tinubu, the other three unions which includes the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, are yet to receive their payment, a development that has generated tension and threat to down tools.
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