UNIVERSITIES TO RESUME UNFAILINGLY NEXT WEEK WITH OR WITHOUT *ASUU*

ioIn a last ditch effort to resolve the ASUU strike,
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday, November
4, meet with the leadership of ASUU at the Presidential
Villa.



This was part of the resolutions of the meeting between the
ASUU leadership, Vice President Namadi Sambo and the
Supervising Minister of Education on Tuesday as was first
reported by this medium.

An official of the Vice President’s office who pleaded
anonymity said that all hands are now on deck to ensure
that the universities resume next week.


The official stated that the Vice President and the
Supervising Minister of Education have made head-way in
resolving the strike, but the final involvement of the
President is to show ASUU that there is the commitment of
the Federal Government at the highest level.
It was learnt that the President has been fully briefed on
steps taken by Vice President Namadi Sambo and the
Supervising Minister of Education to get to this point and he
will at next Monday’s meeting present to the ASUU
leadership the administration’s last concession for them to
call off the prolonged strike.

A source at the Presidential Villa noted that if ASUU
fails to call off, the Federal Government will then resort
to plan B, which will be to compulsorily open the
universities, using the instrumentality of the governing
councils and the school managements.

Already, most of the governing councils of the universities
have started meeting to work out modalities for the
compulsory re-opening of the universities should ASUU fail
to honour the personal request of President Jonathan.
According to report, the Supervising Minister of Education,
Barr. Nyesom Wike and the Vice Chancellors of Public
Universities also discussed the re-opening of the schools last
Monday. Most of the Vice Chancellors suggested the
compulsory re-opening of the schools, should the last
ditch efforts fail.

It was gathered that security report available to the
Presidency may have necessitated this line of action to
salvage the universities system from the direction it is facing
at present.
so what now are we resuming or not