Students are to Resume school on Monday,
November 18th 2013! This information was disclosed by a one of the top members of Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) . He told The Media that the lecturers have decided to return back to school. The source said there was no way the union could reject the new offer of N220bn a year tabled by President Goodluck Jonathan during a marathon meeting with ASUU last week Tuesday. ASUU had after the meeting, told Nigerians that it needed time to deliberate on the new deal and reach a consensus among it members before talking to the press.
ASUU went on strike July 1 over the non-implementation of a 2009 agreement it had with the government with a key component of the memorandum of understanding the allocation of 26% of Nigeria’s total budget to education. Although the government is planning to allocate just 9% of the 2014 budget to education, ASUU now seems set to end the strike after government offers that would surely boost lecturers’ take home pay and improve varsity infrastructure.
It should be noted that it is still a speculation that the strike is coming to an end on the 18th November 2013. This speculation came about as a result of the level of division among the striking lecturers. As some lectures are voting to "an end to the strike" while others really distrust the government so much that they believe that the government will not fulfill its end of the 'new' bargain. The strike has caused so much havoc but since its not an obvious meltdown on the economy, nobody seem to be taking note of the whole breakdown. GOD HELP NIGERIA. We are expecting the press release that will finally hit the nail on the head.
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