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       ASUU strike: President,Suswam, Ministers In Crucial meeting
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 7, 2013, 8:22 am
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       President Goodluck Jonathan onTuesday met behind closed-doors
       with Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State and some key
       ministers over the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by
       members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
       Suswam is the Chairman of the National Economic
       EmpowermentDevelopment Strategy Assessment Implementation
       Committee of the universities.
       Others, who attended the meeting, included the Minister of
       Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala;Minister of Education, Prof.
       Ruqqayat Rufa’i; and the Minister of Labour and Productivity,
       Chief Emeka Wogu.
       The meeting, which was held inside the President’s office at
       thePresidential Villa, Abuja, lasted fora few hours.
       No official statement was made available at the end of the
       meeting.
       Okonjo-Iweala and Suswam left the premises, using a gate that
       allowed them to evade journalists’ that might have wanted to ask
       questions.
       Wogu, who was initially walking towards the Press Gallery,
       quickly made a detour when he sighted journalists waiting for
       him and left through the same gate that the minister and the
       governor had passed through earlier.
       Rufa’i, however, walked into the journalists’ ambush before she
       realised it.
       She initially declined comments on the meeting but when pressed
       further, she said the government was on course in its
       negotiation with ASUU.
       The minister, however, appealed to the striking union to call
       off the industrial action in the interest of the nation.
       “I have not been mandated to speak to journalists on the
       matterbut I can tell you that we are on course. I will only
       appeal to ASUU to call off the strike in the interestof the
       nation,” she said.
       Meanwhile, ASUU on Monday foreclosed an early resolution of the
       industrial crisis rocking the nation’s university system as the
       union insisted that it would not call of its industrial action
       until all its demands were met by the Federal Government.
       The President of ASUU, Nasir Fagge, insisted that the union was
       resolute in sustaining the ongoing strike action to ensure that
       the topical issues affecting the nation’s university system
       tackled decisively once and for all.
       He said it was inconceivable for the union to call of the strike
       without achieving the objectives of the action only to call
       another one later.
       The ASUU President, who made the comment while speak with
       journalists at the Benue State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja,
       said the union decided to continue with the strike because of
       the failure of the government to address the issues raised after
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