The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is
likely to hold its postponed National ExecutiveCouncil (NEC) meeting on Friday. After a wide
spread rumored NEC meeting last week. ASUU is
expected to decide whether or not to susp the
indefinite strike it began four months ago.
It is however unclear if the NEC will still be held at
the Bayero University, Kano where it was initially
proposed to hold.
ReporterTimes garthered that The leadership of the
Union postponed the scheduled Kano NEC meeting
following the demise of one its key members, Festus
Iyayi, a former President, who died last Tuesday in a
ghastly motor accident on his way to Kano for the
postponed NEC meeting. He died along the Abuja-
Lokoja highway in an accident caused by the convoy
of Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada. The Union also
urged the public to ignore speculations that ASUU
has called off its NEC indefinitely, explaining that the
Union only postponed the NEC meeting as a mark of
honour and respect for the late Iyayi. An official on
condition of anonymity confirmed that ASUU
officials had last week Wednesday converged at the
Bayero University, Kano, before news of Iyayi’s death
filtered in. The Union has been on strike since July 1
over the 2009 agreement it reached with the Federal
Government. All entreaties to call it off was rebuffed
until President Goodluck Jonathan waded in with an
offer of N1.1 trillion to be spread across the nation’s
universities for a period of five years. ASUU has said
it will deliberate on Federal government’s offer and
take a position after its forthcoming NEC.
