#ASUU strike may end next week – Sambo

Posted by: b3rrilyn in News Sep 20, 2013

Hope of an early resolution of the strike embarked on by the public universities’ lecturers rises as the Vice-President Namadi Sambo met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Abuja on Thursday.The meeting held behind closed doors had in attendance the supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike and the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie.�-�September 20, 2013��The Punch -Newspaper

Nasir-fagge-Isa, ASUU President

�We have had a meeting with the Vice President and he has given us a message to our members, and we said that as the messengers that we are, we are going to deliver the message faithfully to our members and then they will take the decision.”��I know Nigerians are expecting a solution to the strike, we also want a solution, but I have been given a message to our members. The message is not for Nigerians, it is for our members”.��If I deliver the message, our principal will decide and we will get back to the ministry of education within this week,”�- �ASUU President, Nasir Fagge.�September 19, 2013��Premium Times Nigeria��

�One is quit hopeful that ASUU is committed, they have the passion and that there is the need for us to move the education sector forward.��ASUU coming to discuss means that they are committed on their own part and that the federal government is also committed. We have gone very far, we believe that in no distance time, you will have a very good result,” -�The Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike.��September 19, 2013��Premium Times Nigeria