ASUU Breaking News: Strike to end soon says House Speaker

 There seems to be a glimmer of hope that the ongoing face-off between federal government and Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) might end sooner than we all thought. This is following the efforts made by the Speaker of House of Representatives Hon Femi Gbajabiamila. 

As the information before us suggests, the speaker gave some hope by bringing to bare the seeming understanding between him and president Buhari following the acceptance of his recommendations based on separate and collective consultations held earlier last week and this week with ASUU and Federal Government teams towards finding a common point between the two so that strike could come an end. 

The report reads thus: 

HE SAID THAT THE PRESIDENT AGREED TO THE TERMS AND THERE WILL BE A FOLLOW UP MEETING ON THURSDAY AGAIN. MAY GOD HELP US AMEN. GOD BLESS MR SPEAKER FOR SPEAKING NATIONALLY.

ASUU STRIKE: GBAJABIAMILA PRESENTS RECOMMENDATIONS TO BUHARI

...SPEAKER SAYS END TO ASUU STRIKE NEAR

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, has met with President Muhammadu Buhari, as part of efforts to resolve the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The speaker led a delegation of principal officers from the House to the Aso Rock Presidential Villa immediately after Tuesday's plenary.

Speaking with journalists after the meeting, the speaker highlighted the reason for their visit, saying, “After a series of engagements with ASUU and with people on the executive side, we’ve been able to come to some kind of decisions and recommendations to be made to Mr. President for his approval.

“As you know, what is on the front burner today, even beyond the politics, is that our universities, our lecturers, and our children are out of school.

"The House of Representatives decided to step in at that point four weeks ago and we’ve had a series of meetings that lasted hours and we’ve been able to get both sides to shift ground to an extent and that’s what we came to discuss with Mr. President about those recommendations.”

The Speaker also said he was hopeful that the crisis might soon be resolved as the delegation had a robust engagement with the President. 

Speaker Gbajabiamila spoke more, “Mr. President, as usual, had a very good listening ear, he took the report of the House, accepted it. We discussed it at length, the details of the report and he wanted to go through them himself.

“We have another meeting on Thursday between our good selves and Mr. President for his final decision. We had a good engagement, with a very positive response. 

"He asked us a couple of questions, in some grey areas which we clarified, and he accepted the reports and he wanted a couple of days to go through it. 

"We are working and we are hopeful that this (strike) will soon be a thing of the past. I know once this is agreed upon, the strike will be called off."

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