2017 ASUU Strike Update

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will meet on Monday (today) to deliberate on the offers made by the Federal Government last Thursday in Abuja.

It was gathered on Sunday that the union would meet at zonal levels nationwide, where the members would determine whether to accept the offers made to them or not.

It was learnt the union would take a position on the ongoing strike which had paralyzed academic activities in state and federal universities.

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The Chairman, UNIAbuja chapter of ASUU, Dr. Ben Ugheoke, confirmed that the union would hold a crucial meeting on the labour action.

He explained that after the zonal meetings, the decisions would then be communicated to the national executive council of the union which would take a final position on the issues.

“After the zonal meetings on Monday, the outcomes of the meetings would go through another process before a final decision is taken, it is a tortuous process,” Ugheoke explained.

The Federal Government had during the meeting with the ASUU leadership in Abuja offered to pay N23bn and a monthly payment of N1.5bn pending the outcome of the forensic audit being carried out by the Ministry of Finance.

The government had also yielded to other demands by the ASUU leadership led by its President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, Vice-President, Emmanuel Osodeke, a former union president, Dr. Dipo Fashina, and another member.

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