FG, ASUU Negotiating Team on Break

After about four hours of consultation, the meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities was suspended at about 6.15pm.

The break is to give members of both teams to consult.

While Jonathan and members of his team retired into one of the ante-rooms inside the First Lady’s Conference Hall, venue of the meeting, the union leaders held their consultation inside a white bus parked outside the premises.

The Toyota Hiace bus marked Lagos BU 190 EPE was the one used to convey them to the venue.

The break and consultation session were still ongoing as at 6.40pm

Government's team is led by President Goodluck Jonathan while the ASUU team is led by the union's executives and the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, Abdulwaheed Omar.

Before the meeting, Jonathan had given an assurance to Omar that the agreement would be concluded at Monday's meeting so that public universities can resume from their four-month-old strike.

More details later.