Strike: ASUU zonal leaders meet to discuss FG’s offers today
The Academic Staff Union of Universities will meet on Monday (today) to deliberate on the offers made by the Federal Government last Thursday in Abuja. It was gathered on Sunday that the union would meet at zonal levels nationwide, where the members would determine whether to accept the offers made to them or not. It was learnt the union would take a position on the ongoing strike which had paralysed academic activities in state and federal universities. The Chairman, UNIAbuja chapter of ASUU, Dr. Ben Ugheoke, confirmed that the union would hold a crucial meeting on the labour action. He explained that after the zonal meetings, the decisions would then be communicated to the national executive council of the union which would take a final position on the issues. “After the zonal meetings on Monday, the outcomes of the meetings would go through another process before a final decision is taken, it is a tortuous process,” Ugheoke explained. The Federal Government ...