ASUU strike will end in 2 weeks – Gov. Suswam

The ongoing strike by university lecturers may be called off in two weeks when the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities should have reached an agreement, the Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam, has said.
Mr. Suswam stated this when addressing journalists after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja.
The Benue Governor, who chairs the National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy (NEEDS) assessment implementation committee for universities, said his committee recommended projects worth an initial N1 billion in the universities, which President Goodluck Jonathan will flag off between now and September.

He said the report listed the infrastructural and instruction materials lacking in the universities or in a state of rot.
He added that though all the recommendations could not be implemented at the same time, “if every year there is a commitment on the part of government to be providing money, I believe we will be able to give our universities a new lease of life.
“It will start with the sum of N1 billion and we set up a small committee which will report back to the bigger committee on Tuesday for us to be able to select universities across the six geopolitical zones where the president will decide to go and fag off rejects worth about N1 billion. That should be (at) the end of this month or first week of September because there are processes that needed to be carried out for us to achieve that,” he added.