Thursday's meeting (if it holds) will be precisely a week since the lecturers refused to show up for a meeting with the govt. delegation saying such meeting was "Unnecessary."

This Thursday's meeting is at the instance of the ministers of labour & education & was communicated to ASUU in early hours of Thursday, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.

Persons expected to be at Thursday's meeting are the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, & the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.

The President of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, confirmed Thursday's meeting to PREMIUM TIMES. "We just received the notification of the meeting," he said in a telephone interview on Tuesday morning.

"Until Thursday, that is when we can say what would happen but we have been invited for the meeting."

A National Executive Council meeting of ASUU held last week had reviewed the government's initial offer to some of the demands of the lecturers.