Following the meeting of the Federal Government and the Leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities which was lead by the President, Dr Nasir Fagge, the Federal Government has signed the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) of the rebuilding of the 2009 agreement.
Those at the meeting included the Supervising Minister of Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike, President Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Abdulweed Umar, ASUU National President, Dr. Nasir Fagge, Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof Julius Okojie, and Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education, Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala, among many others.
Dr Nasir Fagge, the Union President, said the signed document would stand as a confirmation stand on the suspension of the 5 month strike.
He stated the strike would be called off next week, when he takes back the Presidents response to his members. He stated he did not have the powers to call of the strike but the members who would agree to the response, which they would be happy to do.
The ASUU President said the development and revitalization of Nigeria’s education sector is the work of everybody.
“It is never too late for the nation to turn a new leaf and do what is right. Other countries that are smaller and less powerful than Nigeria have done it and have succeeded. It is rather unfortunate that Nigeria is not close to some of these smaller nations around us. It is now, we must properly fund our universities, we have lost lot of capital to nations like Ghana and Togo”, Fagge said.
The Supervising Minister of Education, Barr Nyesom Wike said “Today is historic. We have a duty to restore normalcy into our schools. What this meeting shows is that all the contending issues have been resolved and ASUU President said they have a tradition and so he has to go back to report to their members even though all the issues have been resolved. It is clear; we believe that very soon our student would go back to the classroom”.
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