ASUU may end strike next week-VP, Nnamadi Sambo.

Hope of an early resolution of the strike embarked on by the public
universities’ lecturers rises as the Vice-President Namadi Sambo met with
the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Abuja on
Thursday.
The meeting held behind closed doors had in attendance the supervising
Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike and the Executive Secretary of
National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie.
The union was led by its National President, Dr. Nasir Faggae, and two
former Presidents of ASUU; Dr. Dipo Fasina and Dr. Abdullahi Sule-Kano.
Others at the meeting were the Vice-Chancellors of Bayero University
Kano, Prof. Abdulrasheed Abubakar; Prof. Isaac Adewole of the University
of Ibadan; and Prof. Muhammed Hamisu of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
University, Bauchi.
It was however uncertain if yesterday’s discussion was fruitful as the
two parties did not disclose the outcome of the meeting which lasted for
two hours to journalists.
Fagge, however, told State House Correspondents that the union would
make its position known after the National Executive Council meeting.
Wike assured Nigerians that students would soon return to school as
government was ready to make sure all the contending issues were
resolved as soon as possible.
But a source at the meeting, who pleaded anonymity, however, revealed that going by the new offers made by the Federal
Government, the strike might be called off within the next two weeks.
This, the source said, was because the Federal Government had agreed to
inject fund to revitalize the university system.
“The meeting went well, the vice-president made some new offers that
were different from what was on ground before. For instance, the
Federal Government had agreed to start the injection of revitalisation
fund into the university system starting with N100bn this year and
N150bn in 2014 and this will continue until the university system is solid
enough to stand.
The source, however, said that the ASUU team promised the vice-president
that the union would make it decision on the strike known after its NEC
meeting unconfirmed source said had been scheduled for Saturday.
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