The Senate on Tuesday pledged to engage relevant stakeholders to avert the warning strike being planned by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

ASUU had on Monday announced plans to embark on a one-week warning strike over the inability of government to implement agreements reached with it since 2009.

The move by the Senate to intervene in the matter followed a motion moved by Sen. Jibrin Barau (APC-Kano North) under matters of urgent national importance.

The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, urged the chamber to intervene and ensure that the eight -year- agreement was fully implemented.

“We must find a way of seeing to the implementation and we will look into the matter quickly.

“We will also get the relevant parties to quickly come to the table so that we can find a way of moving forward and report back to us,” he said.

While reading the motion, Sen. Jibrin Barau, who is Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TetFund, urged government to implement all agreements.

He also urged government to as well carry out certain actions that were necessary for the wellbeing of the development of Nigerian public universities.

The lawmaker, however, commended ASUU for choosing the path of dialogue rather than confrontation as a means of resolving all the outstanding issues between it and the Federal Government.

In his contribution, Sen. Danjuma Goje (APC-Gombe Central) noted that the history of strike in the country was a recurring decimal.

“It is a disturbing issue to parents and students. There is need to nip it in the bud. We should not allow it to escalate,” Goje said.

Goje said the motion was apt and and called on the senate to engage the leadership of ASUU in order to suspend its planned warning strike.

The Majority Leader, Sen. Mohammed Ndume, described the senate as a stabilising agent and called for the immediate intervention of the senate leadership in the matter.

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This nation has failed us all

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these fools go gree.. na wetin dey vex me be dat

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That strike?! It must hold!

O ga o

The president should sack all the staffs/lecturers that went for strike.. and screen fresh thousands of graduates for the job... Thieves....

The Nigerian government is so predictable. If you really want the Senate to intervene concerning your unemployment right now, simply act violently and all you wish would be yours.

Why must the government wait till the acting minute before acting?

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I don't want dont strike oh

ASUU, the official strike body of Nigeria.
The only time you hear about ASUU is when they are going on strike...

What's tha business?

ceeethru:
The president should sack all the staffs/lecturers that went for strike.. and screen fresh thousands of graduates for the job... Thieves....

Are you serious?

Them fit go on strike thank God ah don finish my exams...

ASUU and strike

Make them strike jor......the number one strike body in Nigeria

tank God unical are through wit exams..dey can go de strike

word and synonym

ASUU and Thunder..

Because of this strike unical had to force us to write multiple exams in just 5days and now they want to cancel strike after stressing us. it is well.

ghocol9:

It's an annual festival.. ASUU strike don turn regular festival

I dey tell you!!

I no know why Lai mohammed dey slack, e need to create Masquerade to dey handle the celebration of ASUU strike annual Festival, to boost our local economy..........

Abeg ooo dey shld do smtn make my pikin no waste time for schl

pls don't allow another season of ASUU strike again because it will affect poorer

ceeethru:
The president should sack all the staffs/lecturers that went for strike.. and screen fresh thousands of graduates for the job... Thieves....

Ignorance is your problem

let me reserve my comment first...

Ok o

lol, kiikiki, my little take is this, if you are a sango(god of thunder) worshipper, you no need go far, seek for any uni close to you, the strike is sure to happen once in a year and can go on for the whole session depending on how fervent you are in worship.
ASUU, the Sango Olukoso of our time, keep it up, useless set of adults. quote me anyhow, make strike strike you.

ceeethru:
The president should sack all the staffs/lecturers that went for strike.. and screen fresh thousands of graduates for the job... Thieves....

are you so frustrated my friend?

ceeethru:
The president should sack all the staffs/lecturers that went for strike.. and screen fresh thousands of graduates for the job... Thieves....

youre just a myopic fool. You know nothing at all.