Source: Nigeria tribune

THERE are indications that the strike
embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union
of Universities (ASUU) may be called off
anytime from now.
These indications emerged on Friday following a secret meeting of some branch chairmen of the union in Kano, which sources said might not be unconnected with an attempt at the resolution of the strike.
According to a source, the ASUU branch
chairmen, who came in their cars, parked the
vehicles at the old campus of the Bayero
University, Kano and then left in a bus for a
secret location for the meeting.
The source said the choice of a secret
location by the chairmen might be for security reasons. The branch chairmen at the meeting, it was gathered, included those from the North- West, South-South and South-West.


www.tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/lead-stories/item/26948-ASUU-in-secret-meeting-in-kano.html


Source: Punch Nigeria

There is strong indication that academic
activities may resume in the nation’s public
universities early next week, Saturday Punch
has gathered. Our correspondent gathered on Friday that members of the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of the Universities again converged on Kano to deliberate on whether to call off their over four months old industrial action or not. The NEC members, who gathered at the Bayero University, Kano, penultimate week to review the reports of the various university congresses over the strike, suspended the meeting following the death of Dr. Festus Iyayi. Iyayi, a University of Benin lecturer and former ASUU president, who died in an auto accident involving the convoy of the Kogi
State Governor, Idris Wada, on his way to
Kano to attend the NEC meeting.
There has been no date yet for the interment
of his remains. However, feelers from Kano on Friday indicated that the ASUU members went into hiding for the meeting. One of our correspondents gathered that the
NEC members, who reconvened in BUK, on
Thursday, retired to a secret location for the meeting. Reporters made frantic efforts to trace the venue of the meeting without success. But many vehicles belonging to the members of the union were seen on campus.
But a member of ASUU NEC, who craved
anonymity because he was not authorised to
speak on the development, confirmed to our
correspondent that the union leaders were
converging on Kano for the meeting.
According to him, though the union has lost a
leading member and an academic, they were
mindful of the feelings of the students and
the public over the protracted industrial
action. He noted that all the union’s national officers as well as other branch chairmen had arrived at the ancient city for the assembly.
However, attempts by our correspondent on
Friday evening to reach out to the University
of Lagos chapter ASUU Chairman, Dr. Karo
Ogbinaka, to confirm the meeting failed, as he did not pick his calls.
He also did not respond to the text message
sent to his telephone.
Ogbinaka had earlier said the academic
community was mourning Iyayi and so was not
in a hurry to fix a new date for the NEC
meeting. The telephone line of the union’s National President, Dr.Nassir Fagge, also did not go through. President Goodluck Jonathan had led a Federal Government team that met with the leadership of the union penultimate week. Following the discussion, the FG reportedly promised to inject N220bn yearly into the public universities for the next five years. The new offer is to begin from 2014.
A majority of the chapters of the union had
agreed on the suspension of the strike
following the fresh commitment the leadership of ASUU obtained from the FG.
Teachers in the nation’s three but 78 public
universities embarked on strike on July 1,
2013 to protest the failure of the FG to
implement the agreement they signed with the authorities in 2009. The pact largely centered on greater funding of the universities, a declaration of a state of emergency in tertiary education, better wages as well as payment of earned allowances to lecturers.
Copyright PUNCH.
www.punchng.com/news/again-ASUU-leaders-meet-set-to-suspend-strike/

Good source bro.... keep it up

Abeg make all of una pack all this ASUU news commot for mah timeline cos take it or leave it, resumption na next year. *oga you get vampire diaries season 4?*

Make GOD bless op and fg including ASSU

ASIU ASUI ASHU ASHUI abi na ASUU?

So how is this supposed to make me happy ehn ?







Fp things sha,atleast for my fellow students who like news of this type
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