ASUU: Strike To Continue As ASUU Rejects FG Offer
20 August, 2013 Local Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government yesterday, which was widely expected to end the ongoing lecturers’ strike, ended in a stalemate. ASUU leadership which met the Governor Gabriel Suswam-led government negotiating team for over three hours at the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in Abuja, said government was trying to renegotiate a 2009 agreement both parties have already agreed upon. ASUU president Nasir Fagge told reporters that the objective of the current strike is to get government to “implement the 2009 ASUU/FGN and particularly to implement the provisions of the memorandum of understanding we reached with the government in 2012.” He said the outcome of yesterday’s meeting shows that not much has been achieved because work has not yet commenced on the aspects of the agreement on needs assessments which was referred to