ASUU strike: Union to take final decision during meeting on Friday Nov 22nd, 2013

The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) is likely to hold its
postponed National Executive Council
(NEC) meeting on Friday. After a wide
spread rumored NEC meeting last
week. ASUU is expected to decide
whether or not to suspend the
indefinite strike it began four months
ago.
It is however unclear if the NEC will
still be held at the Bayero University,
Kano where it was initially proposed to
hold.
The leadership of the Union postponed
the scheduled Kano NEC meeting
following the demise of one its key
members, Festus Iyayi, a former
President, who died last Tuesday in a
ghastly motor accident on his way to
Kano for the postponed NEC meeting.
He died along the Abuja-Lokoja
highway in an accident caused by the
convoy of Kogi State Governor, Idris
Wada.
The Union also urged the public to
ignore speculations that ASUU has
called off its NEC indefinitely,
explaining that the Union only
postponed the NEC meeting as a mark
of honour and respect for the late
Iyayi.
An official on condition of anonymity
confirmed that ASUU officials had last
week Wednesday converged at the
Bayero University, Kano, before news
of Iyayi's death filtered in.
The Union has been on strike since July
1 over the 2009 agreement it reached
with the Federal Government. All
entreaties to call it off was rebuffed
until President Goodluck Jonathan
waded in with an offer of N1.1 trillion
to be spread across the nation's
universities for a period of five years.
ASUU has said it will deliberate on
Federal government's offer and take a
position after its forthcoming NEC.