UNIVERSITIES TO OPEN NEXT WEEK, WITH OR WITHOUT ASUU - FG

President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday, November 4, meet with the
leadership of ASUU at the Presidential Villa.
An official of the Vice President's office who pleaded anonymity told
Scan News that all hands are now on deck to ensure that the
Universities resume next week.
The President will at next Monday's meeting present to the ASUU
leadership the administration's last concession for them to call off
the prolonged strike.
A source at the Presidential Villa noted that if ASUU fails to call
off, the Federal Government will then resort to plan B, which will be
to compulsorily open the Universities, using the instrumentality of
the governing councils and the school managements.
Already, most of the governing councils of the Universities have
started meeting to work out modalities for the compulsory re-opening
of the Universities should ASUU fail to honour the personal request of
President Jonathan.
It was gathered that security report available to the Presidency may
have necessitated this line of action to salvage the Universities
system from the direction it is facing at present.