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Latest ASUU Strike News On ASUU Strike Nigeria, NEC Reveals Final Decision
Latest ASUU News On ASUU Strike Nigeria, Final Decision Made Known, more details below.
Brand News Day Nigeria reports that in its Latest ASUU News On ASUU Strike Nigeria, the final decision would be Made Known after the ASUU’s National Executive Council meeting.
Notably, ASUU Strike news has been making rounds lately until the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU’s National Executive Council meeting is ongoing. Thus has intensified its efforts to push for a strike until the FG will bow down to the union’s demands.
ASUU News On ASUU Strike Updates
Today, Sunday, 13th February, the ASUU’s National Executive Council meeting is ongoing. The meeting taking place at the University of Lagos, Akoka Campus, was convened by the union to decide possible action to take following the alleged refusal of the federal government to accede to its demands.
Latest ASUU News On ASUU Strike, NEC Reveals Final Decision
The union had last week hinted that its decision, whether to proceed on strike to protest the government’s action or continue to render services would be determined at its ongoing NEC meeting, expected to end tomorrow in Lagos.
The decision which will be via voting would determine the fate of students of public universities across the country, who had just returned to campuses after the union’s yuletide break.
Updated: On ASUU Strike, NEC Reveals Final Decision
A source at the meeting held in Lagos told BrandNewsDay in confidence that the strike is to allow the Federal Government to do the needful failure to which the union would go on an indefinite strike.
According to a source, “We just want to give the government a long rope hoping that it would see the need to avoid a total paralysis of academic activities in the nation’s universities. We are parents too and have our children in the system but we cannot watch and allow the total collapse of education in the country.
“Our agitation is in the interest of all and if the system is made better, we will all enjoy it. Prominent personalities in the country have waded into the matter but the government seems recalcitrant. Our National President would explain more when he briefs the press later today,” he said.
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The union latest action is aimed at forcing the government to sign the re-negotiated FGN-ASUU 2009 agreement, payment of the balance of Earned Academic Allowances, deployment of University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTAS, payment of lecturers on sabbatical as well as the proliferation of universities by state governments.
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