ASUU branch Chairmen, secretaries, coordinators, past leaders and the national executive members of the body, including 56 members from 52 universities were all in attendance for the long closed indoor meeting ASUU held yesterday.

ASUU Gives Students Marching Orders; As It Calls Off The Strike
An Empty Lecture Room

“We expect the students to resume and expect their members to go back to class immediately after the congress meeting and we expect the government to keep to the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),” Dr. Ogninaka stated.

SUU Chairman, University of Lagos Chapter, Dr. Karo Ogbinaka told Channels Television that the union decided to suspend the strike after a marathon meeting held in Minna, Niger State capital on Monday.

The Nigerian university lecturers have been on strike July 1, 2013 to demand full implementation of the 2009 agreement it reached with the Federal Government on conditions of service for university lecturers, and funding of infrastructural development in Nigerian universities.



Among ASUU’s demands are the upward review of the retirement age for professors from 65 to 70; adequate funding to revitalise the epileptic university system; and to increase the budgetary allocations to the education sector by 26%.

The different chapters of ASUU are expected to hold congress meetings on Wednesday, following which academic activities will resume in the universities.

Interestingly, ASUU has registered some new demands; the fresh demands include a non-victimisation clause, provision and deposit of N200 billion infrastructure revitalisation funds in an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) details of disbursement of the funds and payment of salary arrears which has accrued to the teachers during the strike.

It is gathered that the agreement between ASUU and the FG, which is reportedly due for renegotiation in 2014 was reached barely 24 hours after the Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe presented a proof of payment of N200 billion into an account with the Central Bank of Nigeria


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