Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it has agreed to consider the federal
government’s offer and suspend their strike. The news comes after 12 hours, 30
minutes of a closed door meeting between ASUU and a government delegation in
Abuja which started 1:38pm on Thursday, September 7 and ended 2:15 a.m. on
Friday, September 8.
According to
PT, the leadership of ASUU, however, said though it accepted the proposal
presented by the government, it will take the proposal to its members and get
back to the government in a week. The national president of ASUU, Biodun
Ogunyemi, told journalists after the meeting that the union will come back
after one week to take its final decisions.
In his
words:
"Now we
have some concrete proposal that we will take back to our members for
consideration."
Adamu Adamu,
the minister of education, said ASUU’s demands have been addressed and the
union will get back to the government in a week after consulting with its
principals.
Recall that
the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian
Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and the
National Association of Academic Technologists, (NAAT), announced that they
would join the ASUU strike on Wednesday, September 6.
The
president of SSANU, who is also the chairman of JAC while speaking at a press
conference in Abuja explained reasons for the industrial action, saying the
nationwide strike would be total and comprehensive.
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