The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) struck a new deal last night.
This
happened at a three-hour close-door meeting at the State House in Abuja
between Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo and the leadership of the
union.Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, ASUU
President Nasir Isa Fagge said the union had got a message from the
government and would meet its members “and get back to the
government”.Fagge, however, refused to dis-close the details of the new
“message”.
On whether there is a
possibility of calling off the strike soon, he said “as a good
messenger”, he would only report back to “the larger ASUU”.Also
speaking, Supervising Minister of Education Nyesom Wike, who was at the
meeting, assured that the strike would soon end as the government was
ready to resolve all the issues that led to the industrial action.
Also
at the meeting were the Executive Secretary of the National
Universities Com-mission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie, as well as Vice
Chancellor of the Bayero University Kano, Professor Abdulrasheed
Abubakar, and his counterparts Isaac Adewole of the University of Ibadan
and Hamisu Muhammed of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.
Former ASUU presidents Dr Dipo Fasina and Dr Abdullahi Sule-Kano were also in attendance.
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