ASUU Strike: NEC ends meeting in Kano, 60 percent of Lecturers want to end industrial action

The Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) rose from a two-day National Executive
Council Meeting (NEC) on Saturday in Kano with
a resolve to keep mum until it met with
President Goodluck Jonathan. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
the meeting was held at an undisclosed venue,
away from the ASUU secretariat. However, a reliable source in the association
who spoke with NAN on Saturday, in Kano, said:
“ASUU has decided to meet with President
Jonathan before making whatever decision
they took during the meeting public.’’ The source added that 60 per cent of the
members wanted the strike called off while the
remaining 40 per cent wanted it to continue. The NEC deliberated on the report from each
university on whether or not they should
accept the federal government’s offer. ASUU has been on strike since July 1 and the
NEC meeting was to deliberate on the
resolutions of various chapters of ASUU on
whether the strike should be suspended or not.