45 days after: UNICROSS ASUU, CRSG set for meeting over strike

By Ike Uchechukwu
CALABAR—After 45 days of a crippling strike that has shut down academic activities at the University of Cross River State, UNICROSS, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, said it was set to meet with the state government as both sides move to resolve the impasse.
The ASUU chapter chairman, Dr. Patrick Ushie, who disclosed this in an interview with Vanguard in Calabar, yesterday, noted that the union had received an invitation from a technical committee set up by the government to look into the matter.
He said the committee had requested documents detailing the union’s grievances, which were submitted yesterday in preparation for the meeting.
“These docu...