President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke has said in the next few days, the union will call off its strike embarked on since February 14th.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Prof Osodeke made this known on Monday during a meeting of ASUU with the leadership of the Nigerian House of Representatives led by Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila.
Speaking during the meeting, Osodeke thanked President Muhammadu Buhari and Gbajabiamila for their intervention to see that the strike is called off.
“We extend our own appreciation to Mr President for intervening. And we know that this problem is now solved. I want to appeal that in the future, we should not allow strikes to linger. Strikes should not go beyond two days.
“If the way the National Assembly has intervened, if we had done that long ago, from the beginning, or those in charge of education or labour have done exactly this, we will not be where we are today, we will not have stay more than two or three weeks in this strike.
“Strike is all over the world, UK, U.S., all over. But they don’t allow it to last. So, we hope that working together in the next few days, we will put an end to this particular imbroglio in the Nigerian educational system,” Osodeke said.