ASUU Has One Week To Call Off Strike – Wike

The Federal
Government
has given striking lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, a one-week ultimatum to call off the
ongoing strike.
Acting Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike gave the
directive today in Abuja, while speaking with journalists.
This is coming on the heels of a statement credited to a member
of the union who dismissed the minister’s announcement on
about the union making new demands, as a blatant lie.
The lecturers had at their NEC meeting last week in Kano,
demanded that government should pay the four-month salary
arrears being owed varsity lecturers while there should be
immediate implementation of the N1.2tn offerred by the
government to public varsities, starting with the release of
N100bn this year, before the strike can be called off, a demand
the acting Minister Wike described as “outrageous”.
Nothing is binding yet, as the union is yet to meet with President
Jonathan. ASUU had said it would meet with the president on
the decisions reached at its NEC meeting before making any
announcement concerning the 5 months old strike.