ASUU Branches To Hold Congresses Today, Exco On Wednesday

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 a
compromise so 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 coruse 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.