This is the latest story on ASUU as reported by Weekly Trust the weekend edition od Daily trust newspaper. The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday held a secret meeting in Kano to take a final position on the four months old strike they embarked upon, Weekly Trust has gathered. It would be recalled that the union had scheduled its NEC meeting for penultimate Wednesday at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) but was postponed following the death of Professor Festus Iyayi in a ghastly motor accident. Weekly Trust reports that the meeting was convened to ratify the resolutions of the branches of the union on the offer of President Goodluck Jonathan on the controversial ASUU/FG agreement. Our correspondent reports that though the meeting was scheduled for BUK, members of the NEC were ferried from the secretariat of BUK branch of ASUU to Mumbayya House around 9.30am yesterday. It was gathered that many members of the union who arrived BUK from across the country parked their cars there and joined a waiting coaster bus. When our correspondent went to BUK old site around 6.30pm yesterday, he saw vehicles of ASUU branches of Kaduna State University, Usman Danfodio University, LAUTECH, Ambrose Ali University among others parked. It was gathered the meeting which was still ongoing as at the time of filling this report and may last till today, Saturday. A source at the meeting told our correspondent that at the end of the meeting, the union will call off the strike. “Many members of the union were not informed about the venue, because our leadership don’t want press men to know of the meeting. You know they are deliberating on the offer of Mr. President as such they want him to know about the outcome through them and not the media,” a member of the union told Weekly Trust on condition of anonymity. Efforts to speak with ASUU president, Dr. Nasir Isa Fagge were unsuccessful as his GSM number was switched off.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:12:20 +0000
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