In what appears to be an endless strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), reprieve may soon come the way of students of federal universities and polytechnics if current dialogue between both bodies achieve desired result. For about six months now, students of Nigerian universities have been out of classes.
Frustrations of ASUU grew to misgivings and mistrust of the government with which it signed an agreement way back in 2009. ASUU therefore slammed the doors of the lecture halls for what it called "total and indefinite strike". Since then, parents and students have been left counting days which melt into weeks and developed to months while those involved in ending the industrial action dilly-dally within the same cycle of deadlocked meetings.
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