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In a swift reaction, however, the ousted chapter chairman, Molem Ishaku, said he was still in charge and that the strike would continue

Rising from a meeting held at the University of Lagos, the Ibadan Zone of ASUU said the meeting with the leadership of the National Assembly and the Ministers of Labour and Education, Chief Emeka Wogu and Prof. Ruqayyat Rufai, had not persuaded them sufficiently about government’s willingness to meet their demands

The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, made the call on Tuesday in an interview with newsmen after a Workshop on World Bank Initiated Africa Centres of Excellence Project in Abuja

ASUU made its position known in Abuja when it appeared before the joint National Assembly Committees on Education

Adeyemi told NAN that the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education had on Thursday informed the union that a circular addressing the issues had been issued

The National Assembly Joint Committee on Education had called the aggrieved unions in the nation’s higher institutions for a dialogue on the way forward in their ongoing industrial action

The JTB, in a letter dated July 2, 2013, which was also copied to the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oladipo Aina, said the new tax regime was consequent upon the Personal Income Tax (Amendment) 2011, which was signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan

Fagge said that the decision to have the strike was reached at the National Executive Committee meeting of ASUU held at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago Iwoye, Ogun State on Monday

Reacting to the development, the university spokesman, Desmond Wosu, said that there were plans to discuss with the union to restore normalcy in the institution

At an emergency meeting held at the Olabisi Onabanjo University on Friday, ASUU said the power to appoint and remove principal officers of universities as contained in the university law is vested in the Governing Council