FG gives ASUU one-week ultimatum to end strike
The Federal Government has directed all federal university vice-chancellors to reopen their institutions for academic and allied activities.
The government also declared that lecturers who fail to resume on or before December 4, would lose their jobs.
The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, stated this at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday.
The development which elicited mixed reactions, has consequently put the President Goodluck Jonathan-ASUU leaders truce meeting in jeopardy.
The meeting had raised the hopes of students and parents on the resolution of the crisis but an accident on November 12, in which a former President of ASUU, Prof Festus Iyayi, lost his life, cast gloom on the calling off of the strike.
Iyayi and some members of the University of Benin chapter of the union were on their way to the Bayero University, Kano for a meeting where the outcome of the meeting with Jonathan was to be tabled before the NEC members’ for consideration.
Due to Iyayi’s death, ASUU called off the meeting but reconvened penultimate Thursday in Kano where it harmonised its members’ position on the offer by government