BREAKING!! ASUU Will Suspend Strike Within 24 Hours (READ)

The Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) has said they would suspend
strike within 24 hours once the
resolutions reached with President
Goodluck Jonathan on November 4 were
accepted, which ought to be today.
The Union, however, described the
statement credited to the Minister of
Education, Nyesom Wike, that ASUU was
making new outrageous demands as
“untrue and absolute lie”.
ASUU’s position was made known by the
National Treasurer, Dr. Ademola Aremu,
in an interview with The Nation in Ibadan
on Wednesday.
The Union said it asked Jonathan to
facilitate the endorsement of resolutions
reached with him and signed by high
ranking government official preferably the
Attorney-General of the Federation but
not a Permanent Secretary.
ASUU said their representative of the
body, including the President of Nigeria
Labour Congress, Abdulwahid Omar,
would stand as witnesses.
Aremu also said the striking lecturers
wanted the N200 billion agreed upon as
2013 revitalisation fund for public
universities to be warehoused with the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and
disbursed to the benefiting universities.
He noted that ASUU appreciated the
intervention of the President, but then
added that some of the resolutions
reached with Jonathan were not included
in the letter sent to the Union.
According to him, the supervising Minister
of Education forgot to mention that apart
from the N30 billion earned allowances
released for university staff, the FG was
yet to release N100 billion claimed to have
been released.

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