Nigeria: Senate Wades Into ASUU-FG Face-Off

23 October 2013

From the boardroom of Federal Executive Council (FEC), the move to end the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) moved to the parliament Wednesday with the Senate mandating its President, Senator David Mark, to engage both the Federal Government and ASUU with a view to ending the strike.

The senators who urged the striking lecturers to return to the classroom to prevent what they described as further devaluation of the country's educational fortunes, also mandated the committee on education to liase with the Federal Ministry of Education, National Universities' Commission (NUC) and all other relevant stakeholders to profer lasting solution to the menace.

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