ASUU TO END STRIKE SOON.

"Asuu" ready to call off 4-months old strike.

After meetings with the senate president ,senator David Mark in the senate house on tuesday,the outcome of the meeting wasnt released to the press,that same day,it was as if the meeting between the two bodies didnt yield any positive result.Later on that same day, the union,as it was also gathered, asked the Federal Government to slash across board, salaries of National Assembly members, ministers and other political office holders by 2014.
The demand was placed on the Federal Government at a meeting of the union held with President Goodluck Jonathan and other key government officials at the Presidential Villa, on Monday. ASUU had suggested this based on the complaint by the Federal Government that it had no money to implement all aspects of the 2009 agreement as demanded.
 

 ASUU president Dr Isah Fagge had been directed to brief their members on the offer by President Jonathan, which is largely an addition of N20 billion to the N200 billion already agreed upon with Vice President Namadi Sambo to be released to universities annually.  The Federal Government had agreed to release N220 billion yearly to the public universities, beginning from 2014 till the next five years. 

It was also gathered that the meeting adopted the accord struck by the vice president with the union, on the need to increase the N30 billion already released for the payment of academic earned allowance to N40 billion.FG also agreed that the N40 billion should be regarded only as first instalment, and not a once-and-for-all payment.

At the meeting, the FG assured that it would, among other things, revamp the public universities by ensuring that all those issues that always led to strike were dealt with once and for all.

ASUU president had, after the meeting, said  that after meetings with the chairmen of "asuu" nation wide and other members of "asuu" that they would know if a decision would be taking.