BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU, Abuja
THE National Strike Coordinating Committee, NSCC, comprising of principal officers and Zonal Coordinators of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU will be meeting Saturday to take stock of the ongoing strike embarked by the union that is entering the fourth months.
Meantime, ASUU said that it was not under any pressure to call-off the strike despite what it called sponsored protests and rallies against the union, stressing that before the union decided to embark on the strike, it holistically took objective assessment of the situation.
One of the branch Chairmen of ASUU and member of NSCC who spoke exclusively to Saturday Vanguard on the condition of anonymity said that the meeting will take place in Ondo state and that there would be a situation report including the meeting representatives of ASUU had with the Federal government last week’s Friday.
He said,”We are meeting tomorrow, National Strike Coordinating Committee. Tomorrow is arrival. Our Principal officers and Zonal Coordinators met with government last week Friday, one week today, so we want to discus the outcome of the meeting, after that we will now meet.”
Commenting on the plethora of protests by different groups over the strike which could be mounting pressure on the union to call off the strike, he said that “There is no pressure on us. We look at things objectively and remember that even me as I am talking we cannot suspend the strike.
“We have to get inputs from the branches that is why our strike is always very tight, because before we declared the strike, we have collected inputs from all branch officers in the universities in Nigeria, we collated it, discussed it extensively for two days before we declared the strike.
“And if there is any offer made by government, we have to look at it, that is the principal officers ten of them in number, the zonal coordinators who take over functions of NEC during the strike, so, they will look at what government has offered, brief us the branch chair persons then it is at this point we will now know whether to convene an emergency NEC to look at it holistically.
“By the time they are briefing us, they will also ask us to brief our committee members and take the issue to the congress, it is not a one man show, all these ones they are talking about politics it is not true, the process right from the least of all the lecturers to the highest that is the professor from each branch, we collate all their responses, it is only when they advise us to suspend that we suspend, it is not just one man show.”
All attempts made to call the National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge failed as he neither picked calls put across his GSM line nor replied the text message sent to him. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/ASUU-meet-strike-says-pressure/

To God b the glory. *wake me up when they call d strike off*

Bla bla bla bla

Tired of all this, jst thinking why ASUU doesnt have a spokeman that different chapter or branch chairman say different things. Resume and continue negotiation!

Frustrated.

Just thinking of my babe,i think i wil cal her let's meet in school and b together for a while.,it's been long i Bleep her. That aside.,barcelona vs real madrid e-classicle is next weekend. Thank God puyol is back from knee surgery. for dis week epl.,mau u,man city,chlesea,arsenal,liverpool all hav matches today

Dr2great: Just thinking of my babe,i think i wil cal her let's meet in school and b together for a while.,it's been long i Bleep her. That aside.,barcelona vs real madrid e-classicle is next weekend. Thank God puyol is back from knee surgery. for dis week epl.,mau u,man city,chlesea,arsenal,liverpool all hav matches today

Thank GOD ur on my Side......So hw dis U-17 Match go b Naaaaaaaa "Nigeria vs Mexico" Today 2pm

ASUU is just a confused body, 2day dey wil say something 2morow dey wil say anoda. ASUU and f.g shud just go to hell

My prayers are that these people are rewarded accordingly by GOD Almighty!!! Y cant 2 matured individuals sit down and trash out an issue once and for all? Must the students always pay for their inefficiency?? Am so disappointed!!

The strike would be called off..

hehehehe......dey don dey Fear....dey wan call d strike off....who no sabi dis Kind of sense.................4 primary skul 1 old baba wan beat me, as pplle come full wey go separate us na xo i begin dey make mouth say I 4 beat am..........meanwile in normal senses d Guy go kill me, bury me.................Na d kind sense ASUU dey play

40b and 200b is owk 4 ASUU,jerualem was nt built in a day,and no goverment has ever show commitment as dis

mk dem meet o,.
Y is dis nt on fp sef,na ASUU cos prostitution we go dey c dere o

yung cyrus: hehehehe......dey don dey Fear....dey wan call d strike off....who no sabi dis Kind of sense.................4 primary skul 1 old baba wan beat me, as pplle come full wey go separate us na xo i begin dey make mouth say I 4 beat am..........meanwile in normal senses d Guy go kill me, bury me.................Na d kind sense ASUU dey play

u gt luck,.
But if to say na abacha period dem for gt mind go strike?

odizeey: u gt luck,.
But if to say na abacha period dem for gt mind go strike?

.my Big Bros d tin Tire me ooo.....who born dem 4 Abacha time....

yung cyrus: .my Big Bros d tin Tire me ooo.....who born dem 4 Abacha time....

na cane dem go use tk flog all of dem