FG gives ASUU one week ultimatum to call off strike

* The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,
has been given one week ultimatum to call off the
ongoing strike.
The directive was given today, in Abuja by the
acting Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike
while speaking with journalists.
The union has been on strike since July 1 over the
non Implementation of a 2009 agreement with the
federal government.
According to reports, the lecturers at their NEC
meeting last week in Kano, demanded that
government should pay the four-month salary
arrears being owed varsity lecturers while there
should be immediate implementation of the
N1.2tn offerred by the goverment to public
varsities, starting with the release of N100bn this
year, before the strike can be called off.
A demand the acting Minister Wike had described
as ,”outrageous.”
Meantime, ASUU had said it would meet with
President Jonathan on the decisions reached at its
NEC meeting before any announcement will be
made concerning the 5months old strike.