A statement from the Chairman of ASUU-ESUT, Prof. Gab Agu, in Enugu on Sunday, said the union’s attention was drawn to the announcement by authorities that students would resume academic activities on Monday
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“Yes, the local ASUU chapter voted 159 to 88 against ending the strike at its congress on Monday, but we shall abide by any decision taken by the national body on Wednesday,” its Chairman, Dr. David Jangdam, said in Jos on Tuesday
According to reports, Iyayi was killed when a car in the motorcade of Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State rammed into his vehicle near Lokoja
The Eagle Online gathered it was preliminary talks ahead of the scheduled meeting with ASUU officials later in the day
“I think the citizens must now demand a neutral approach in the search for a solution to the kind of university system that we want to run
Abdulwaheed Omar, the NLC President, made the appeal at the end of the National Executive Council meeting of the congress in Kaduna
The NUT President, Michael Alogba-Olukoya, said this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday
“We rather wish to implore this government to make history by commencing the process of revitalising public universities to a height never attained by any previous administration
Ambali made the appeal on Tuesday in Ilorin at the Founders’ Day and 29th Convocation Ceremony of the university
The students, in a 5,000 man protest, tagged: “100 Days plus, ASUU’s Unending Strike”, at the boundary between Delta and Anambra States, led by the NANS National President, Comrade Yinka Gbadebo, and his NAPS counterpart condemned the strike, which they described as “ego-centric
The chapter’s Chairman, Prof. Peter Akinola, who led the protest, appealed to the Federal Government to accede to ASUU’s demands to enable the union suspend the industrial action
It described as particularly ridiculous the crowd-for-hire protest in Abuja on Monday by the so-called National Market Women Association, in which their leader vowed to chase lecturers out of Nigeria and replace them with “jobless Nigerians”
Akinremi said: “This is as a result of the directive from our National Executive Council
According to him, students will no longer support the action of ASUU, which he described as a selfish one
“NAPS in solidarity cannot watch Nigeria students serve as victim of resolvable action of both authorities. And as such, we are sending this as warning, that if the strike continues any further, we shall mobilise the entire Nigeria students to barricade all locations in the federation until normalcy is returned
He said: “We demanded for N500 billion but the government has only released N100 billion to university councils for infrastructure development in selected universities and another N30 billion for part-payment of Earned Academic Allowances
Maku said: “If we say every particular problem we face in this countr,y we will not work until it is resolved, then I’m sure there is no sector that will work
Omar called on both the government and the striking lecturers to resume negotiations, especially in the interest of the students and for the future of the country
While we accuse political leaders of selfishness, there is no difference between them and some of the lecturers in their seeming connivance in the promotion of private universities and patronage of foreign institutions, to the expense of our public universities
“Sometime, simply because of the pressure or the determination to get students back to classes, government agrees to certain things they knew then they may not be able to meet as easily as possible