Nigeria: ASUU Strike May End This Week, Says Yar'Adua
26 June 2007
Posted to the web 27 June 2007
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has assured the nation that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may call off their three months old strike this week.
The Nigerian helmsman who spoke yesterday at the national executive council meeting of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), expressed the optimism that with the end of the NLC strike, there was every likelihood that of the university lecturers would be over in the course of the week.
This is coming as the House of Representatives will today table a motion for a resolution of the ASUU strike as well as lasting solution to labour crises in the country.
Already, the Nigeria Labour Congress has expressed its readiness to be part of the process seeking to end the industrial dispute between the Federal Government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)
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Member of the House representing Itu constituency of Akwa Ibom State, Hon. Etta Inang, disclosed to THISDAY that some members had already submitted motions on notice, among others, the handling of the Nigeria Labour congress strike and the moves by the House leadership to find an amicable solution to the issue of the ASUU who have been on strike since April this year.
A member of the Senate, Senator Mohammed Bello, (representing Kano Central on the platform of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has also made a passionate appeal to the ASUU to call off the strike.
The ASUU President, Dr. Suleiman Kano, had last week met with the leadership of the National Assembly on how to resolve the lingering crisis. Kano told the Speaker of the House, Hon. Hon. Olubunmi Etteh, that the ASUU executive would meet this week and get back to the assembly as he could not take a unilateral decision on the matter. Basking in the euphoria of its newly cemented relationship with government, achieved through the recent agreement for the suspension of the national strike on fuel price hike, the NLC appeared set to take on the issues relating to the stalled negotiation between ASUU and the federal ministry of Education.