The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has disclosed that a final decision will be made during a meeting on Saturday in regards to its proposed nationwide strike.

According to ASUU Zonal Coordinator in charge of the Sokoto zone, Jamilu Shehu during a press conference on Wednesda in Katsina, the federal government should urgently address these issues of the agreed MoA or risk an industrial action by Saturday.

He said, “We are, hence, calling for all the concerned parties to urgently address these issues in line with the spirit and letters of the December 2020 MoA and the intervention of the Speaker, House of Representatives, and others, or risk industrial action.

“Also the union hereby calls on all patriotic Nigerians to prevail on the government to return to the path of honour by concluding the MoA it agreed to implement.

“Both the federal and state governments should be impressed upon to accord the educational sector the attention it deserves because that is the only, and of course surest way, that we can truly develop as a nation,” the union said.

(Daily Independent)

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