Nigeria public universities were closed down
several months ago as a result of the Federal
Government's failure to implement the agreement it entered into in 2010 with lecturers.
There have been a lot of calls to the Federal
Government and ASUU to come to compromises of that students resume academic activities. Both warring factions had maintained hard stand on the issue as ASUU argued that poor funding was responsible for the dwindling fortunes of education and its attendant poor quality of graduates, while the Federal Government said the university lecturers downed tools over enhanced
earned allowance.
The leading members of the Senate and President Jonathan had separate meetings with the union and relevant stakeholders last Monday, in the course of which new offers were made to the teachers with a plea for them to re-open
universities.
A branch Chairman of ASUU stated that the
outcome of today's meeting of the various
branches would be announced to the national
leadership of the union, which will in turn
convene an emergency NEC meeting between
Wednesday and Thursday this week to consider the positions of various branches .
The Chairman, who did not want his name to be mentioned, said:
"It is at the meeting that the various branches
will take position and communicate same to the national leadership Monday evening, then an emergency NEC meeting would be convened between Wednesday and Thursday.
"We have not been told of the venue, but we
were told to prepare because it would take two days by road from my branch."
According to his words, calling for a strike or
calling it off is not the decision to be taken by the ASUU President (Dr. Nasir Fagge) or the national executive alone.
Government's failure to implement the agreement it entered into in 2010 with lecturers.
There have been a lot of calls to the Federal
Government and ASUU to come to compromises of that students resume academic activities. Both warring factions had maintained hard stand on the issue as ASUU argued that poor funding was responsible for the dwindling fortunes of education and its attendant poor quality of graduates, while the Federal Government said the university lecturers downed tools over enhanced
earned allowance.
The leading members of the Senate and President Jonathan had separate meetings with the union and relevant stakeholders last Monday, in the course of which new offers were made to the teachers with a plea for them to re-open
universities.
A branch Chairman of ASUU stated that the
outcome of today's meeting of the various
branches would be announced to the national
leadership of the union, which will in turn
convene an emergency NEC meeting between
Wednesday and Thursday this week to consider the positions of various branches .
The Chairman, who did not want his name to be mentioned, said:
"It is at the meeting that the various branches
will take position and communicate same to the national leadership Monday evening, then an emergency NEC meeting would be convened between Wednesday and Thursday.
"We have not been told of the venue, but we
were told to prepare because it would take two days by road from my branch."
According to his words, calling for a strike or
calling it off is not the decision to be taken by the ASUU President (Dr. Nasir Fagge) or the national executive alone.
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