The Federal Government resumed talks with the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday.
The gathering on Tuesday is the second of its sort in the three weeks since academics launched a one-month warning strike.
Academics are demanding better working conditions, the revitalization of public universities, and university autonomy, among other things.
At Tuesday’s meeting, ASUU representatives stated that they were no longer interested in signing a memorandum of understanding.
They requested that previous agreements be implemented.
Meanwhile, Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, expressed optimism that the standoff would be broken.
Both parties disputed who is delaying the evaluation of ASUU’s preferred payroll system, the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS).
While the Minister said that the union is delaying concluding areas where harmonization is needed with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), academics claimed that NITDA was unprepared for them.
Academic disagreement about a payroll system is one of the key reasons for the latest strike, according to the academics.
