President Goodluck
Jonathan is currently locked in a closed-door make-or-mar meeting with striking
members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities inside the First Lady
Conference Room, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The President is
being joined at the meeting that started at 2.40pm by Vice President
Namadi Sambo; Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim; Supervising Minister of Education,
Nyesom Wike; and Minister of Labour, Emeka Wogu among others.
ASUU President, Dr.
Nasir Isa Faggae, led the union team which included past presidents such as
Prof. Abdulahi Sule-Kano, Prof. Dipo Fashina and Prof. Festus Iyayi.
President of the
Nigeria Labour Congress, Abdulawahid Omar and that of the Trade. Union
Congress, Bobboi Kaigama, are also in attendance.
Indication that the
logjam may be resolved at the meeting emerged when the President declared while
shaking hands with members of the delegation that, “The matter must be resolved
here today. Our children must go back to school.”
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