ASUU Strike Update: ASUU to take Final decision during meeting on Friday Nov 22nd, 2013!!

The Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) is likely to hold its postponed
National Executive Council (NEC) meeting
on Friday. After a wide spread rumored
NEC meeting last week. ASUU is expected
to decide whether or not to suspend the
indefinite strike it began four months ago.
It is however unclear if the NEC will still
be held at the Bayero University, Kano
where it was initially proposed to hold.
ReporterTimes garthered that The
leadership of the Union postponed the
scheduled Kano NEC meeting following
the demise of one its key members,
Festus Iyayi, a former President, who died
last Tuesday in a ghastly motor accident
on his way to Kano for the postponed NEC
meeting. He died along the Abuja-Lokoja
highway in an accident caused by the
convoy of Kogi State Governor, Idris
Wada. The Union also urged the public to
ignore speculations that ASUU has called
off its NEC indefinitely, explaining that the
Union only postponed the NEC meeting as
a mark of honour and respect for the late
Iyayi. An official on condition of
anonymity confirmed that ASUU officials
had last week Wednesday converged at
the Bayero University, Kano, before news
of Iyayi’s death filtered in. The Union has
been on strike since July 1 over the 2009
agreement it reached with the Federal
Government. All entreaties to call it off
was rebuffed until President Goodluck
Jonathan waded in with an offer of N1.1
trillion to be spread across the nation’s
universities for a period of five years.
ASUU has said it will deliberate on
Federal government’s offer and take a
position after its forthcoming NEC.

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