THE about five-month-old strike embarked
upon by members of Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) may be called off next
week.

It was gathered that the union would conclude
consultations with its members and may
resume class soon.

The union, it was also gathered, had asked the
Federal Government to slash across board,
salaries of National Assembly members,
ministers and other political office holders by
2014.

The demand was placed on the Federal
Government at a marathon meeting leadership
of the union held with President Goodluck
Jonathan and other key government officials at
the Presidential Villa, on Monday.

ASUU president, Dr Nasir Isa Fagge, could not
confirm this, as calls put to him on his mobile
line were unsuccessful, but ASUU source told
the Nigerian Tribune in Abuja that the demand
formed part of their deliberations on Monday to
early hours of Tuesday.

The source said ASUU had suggested this
based on the complaint by the Federal
Government that it had no money to implement
all aspects of the 2009 agreement as
demanded.

Nigerian Tribune, however, gathered that
branch chairmen of the ASUU had been
directed to brief their members on the offer by
President Jonathan, which is largely an
addition of N20 billion to the N200 billion
already agreed upon with Vice President
Namadi Sambo to be released to universities
annually.

According to the fresh pact, the Federal
Government had agreed to release N220
billion yearly to the public universities begining from 2014 till the next five years.

It was also gathered that the meeting adopted
the accord struck by the vice president with
the union, on the need to increase the N30
billion already released for the payment of
academic earned allowance to N40 billion.

According to sources, government also agreed
that the N40 billion should be regarded only as
first installment, and not a once-and-for-all
payment.

At the meeting, the government assured that it
would, among other things, revamp the public
universities by ensuring that all those issues
that always led to strike were dealt with once
and for all.

Hope both the offerer and d offeree will not break d truce. We shall see. Let d schools resume nihi ako na uche

Hmm...teens are walking togather four my gud

hmmm spaced booked.