Yes! Pack your bags!
A source close to top guns in the Academic
Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) has told The
City Reporters the lecturers will ditch their four
month old strike this weekend so students
could resume on November 18 (next Monday).
The source said there was no way the union could reject the
new offer of N220bn a year tabled by President Goodluck
Jonathan during a marathon meeting with ASUU last
week Tuesday.
ASUU had come out of that meeting to tell Nigerians it
needed time to deliberate on the new deal and reach a
consensus among it members before talking to the press.
A top official of the union, has however said the
government could not be trusted even on the new offer, and
that ASUU’s members were divided over the government’s
offer. He, however raised a beam of hope by saying the
majority still decided to give the government the benefit of
the doubt.
As ASUU executives meet this Wednesday, if the fate of
the strike is down to a vote among the striking lecturers, as
suggested by ASUU chairman, Nasir Fagge, the four
month old impasse may surely end this week.
ASUU went on strike July 1 over the non-
implementation of a 2009 agreement it had with the
government with a key component of the memorandum of
understanding the allocation of 26% of Nigeria’s total budget
to education.
Although the government is planning to allocate just 9% of
the 2014 budget to education, ASUU now seems set to end
the strike after government offers that would surely boost
lecturers’ take home pay and improve varsity infrastructure.

I pray o!! Cnt w8!