ASUU STRIKE WILL END SOON - FG ASSURES

The federal government hinted on Wednesday that following "serious
negotiations" it has made with aggrieved lecturers, the ongoing strike
embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will
soon come to an end.
Disclosing this after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting,
Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku who appealed to both parents
and university students to be patient with government and show more
understanding, added that since the industrial action began, the
federal government had been seriously disturbed over the social costs
that would be incurred by the disruption of academic calendar.
Maku said, "The federal government has been far more worried than you
think concerning the strike in tertiary institutions, because of the
disruption of the school calendar. And so government is concerned and
very worried. From the onset, government has been negotiating with
ASUUthrough the ministry of labour and productivity and the ministry
of education. As at today, we know that these negotiations are going
on and itis our expectation that this strike will not get more
protracted and that an understanding will be reached soon enough to
enable our students return back to school.
"So, we are appealing to our people, particularly, parents and
children of thisnation to bear with us, to show more understanding and
we pray that this type of strike will not re-occur, because the public
school system suffers a lot of damage with the perennial strikes. The
universities have been relatively stable since the advent of this
administration.