ASUU UPDATE: STRIKE CONTINUES

* Journalists were , Monday, assaulted by some
officials of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU), while they were waiting for
the outcome of the Union’s National Executive
Committee, NEC, meeting holding at the Federal
University of Technology, Minna.
The closed-door meeting which started at about
11:30am was still ongoing at press time.
However, there was disagreement among ASUU
members over the presence of the media, some
suggested the media should stay because they
are doing their job, others persisted that “we did
not invite them. When we need them, we will
invite them.”
The Vice Chancellor, Federal University of
Technology Minna, Prof. Musbau Akanji, who got
wind of the altercation between journalists and
the ASUU officials, intervened saying, “although, I
am not a part of the meeting but I am apologizing
on their behalf because they are in my territory.
“This place (FUT, Minna) is a Federal Government
institution, and it is a public place that everybody,
including journalists can enter, especially when
they are doing their job.”
As at the time of filing this report, the strike has
not been called off.