ABUJA – The Federal Government
and the leadership of Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, led by
its President Dr. Nasir Fagge
yesterday, signed Memoradum of
Understanding on the restructured
2009. Agreement.
ASUU President, Dr. Nasir. Fagge
said the document signed would be
presented to the union to take an
affirmative stand on the suspension
of the 5 months old industrial action.
He said with the signing of the MOU
the 5month old strike would be
suspended in a week’s time.
According to Fagge, “This is the
response to the letter we wrote to
Mr. President and this document
would now be forwarded to our
members and our members would
give us direction. We are hoping that
we would be able to meet with our
members in less than a week.
I don’t have the power to call off the
industrial action, it is only our
members that can do that. And our
members gave us a message to give
to the Federal Government which we
have done and within one week our
members would meet. We already
have the document which shows that
Government is committed”.
The ASUU President said the
development and revitalization of
Nigeria’s education sector is the
work of everybody.
“It is never too late for the nation to
turn a new leaf and do what is right.
Other countries that are smaller and
less powerful than Nigeria have done
it and have succeeded. It is rather
unfortunate that Nigeria is not close
to some of these smaller nations
around us. It is now, we must
properly fund our universities, we
have lost lot of capital to nations like
Ghana and Togo”, Fagge said.
He therefore assured Nigerians that
ASUU would not take long in
ensuring that the right thing is done
as soon as possible.
The Supervising Minister of
Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike, who
led the Federal Government team
said the fact that ASUU signed the
resolution shows the strike has
already been called off.
Wike said, “Today is historic. We
have a duty to restore normalcy into
our schools. What this meeting
shows is that all the contending
issues have been resolved and ASUU
President said they have a tradition
and so he has to go back to report to
their members even though all the
issues have been resolved. It is
clear; we believe that very soon our
student would go back to the
classroom”.
Among those at the meeting were the
Supervising Minister of Education,
Barr. Nyesom Wike, President Nigeria
Labour Congress, Comrade
Abdulweed Umar, ASUU National
President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, Executive
Secretary of NUC, Prof Julius Okojie,
and Permanent Secretary Ministry of
Education, Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala,..
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/ASUU-call-strike-week-signs-mou-fg/

Thank God the battle is 99.98% over. *dancing pullover by staarboy*

hope say cum nxt week dem ni go start another argument sha?