BREAKING: Again ASUU Extends Strike by One Month

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have extended its National Industrial Strike by another one month.

This was disclosed during the Union’s National Executive Council, NEC, meeting on Monday.

A reliable source from the meeting disclosed that the NEC members didn’t consider suspending the strike because Federal Government is yet to offer anything solid.

In his words:

“Since there is no sign of any serious commitment on the part of the government, there was no need for the NEC to consider suspending the strike. Can anybody say this is what the goverement is offering? They were the ones who set up the Briggs Committee and it made recommendations and the government jettisoned the report.

“The government is not sincere. Let us assume that we are asking too much, which is not even the situation, is it not that the government will come out with its offers and we will deliberate whether to accept or not. We have been saying it that they want to kill the university system just as they did public primary and secondary schools.

“How many Nigerians are now proud to send their children to public primary and secondary schools that we all attended in those days? The national leadership of the union will soon come out with our decisions.1

ASUU has been on strike since February 14 and this extension will make this current strike one of the longest strike embarked by the union.

Recall President Muhammadu Buhari on Jul 19 gave the Minster of Education a two-week ultimatum to resolve the union’s strike.

Almost two weeks after the ultimatum, the Union’s president Prof Osodeke said they are yet to hear anything from the Minister.

“There has been nothing from the Federal Government since the minister took over. He has not met with us. He still has two days before the two weeks ultimatum ends.”

He said.

“I Sent My Kids To Study Abroad Due To ASUU Strike” – “King of Boys” Star Sola Sobowale Reveals

Meanwhile the King of Boys star, Sobowale had last week revealed that she sent her children ou of Nigerian because of the incessant strikes crippling the nation’s educational section.

In her words: “I know the universities, I know how they select people, and I looked and I said so my children would either go to university in Ife, University of Ibadan or Lagos, but unfortunately, today strike, tomorrow strike so the course of three years, they end up using six years, so I said, no, if I can be paying this much in primary and secondary, I’m not going to throw that in University so let my children leave Nigeria and that was why I moved my children from Nigeria to London.”

Strikes Won’t Stop Until Fed Govt is Responsible – ASUU

The Academic Union Last week reiterated that they won’t end the strike until Federal Government becomes “responsible”.

The Chairman, ASUU, University of Ibadan chapter, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, said in a statement on Sunday that Nigerians should not see the strike as a problem of ASUU thing but as a fight all Nigerians must own to have a future of quality education for their children.

He added that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) government had displayed capacity to abuse trust saying that the Memorandum of Understanding and Memorandum of Action signed with the government were not honoured.