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       We will introduce "Students' Loan" instead of honourin
       g ASUU's Demand -FG
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 27, 2013, 11:55 am
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       The Nigerian Government has decided to break off negotiation
       with the Academic StaffUnion of Universities (ASUU) over what it
       called the infiltration of the union by the opposition to
       discredit the government.
       SaharaReporters gathered that as the committee set up by the
       Nigerian government to negotiate with the union gave a verdict
       of non-compromise on the part of the union and 'security report'
       of the infiltration of the opposition, it decided to break the
       negotiation.
       It was revealed that the committee had reported to the
       government that the union had remained 'rigid and unbending' to
       suggestions on how to agree on some of theissues it was
       agitating for so as to end the strike which had entered its
       ninth week.
       The committee had told the government that the union leaders
       were arrogant and selfish as their interest was paramount to
       that of their students who had been at home all this while.
       The government after the report told the committee members that
       it had fresh securityreport that the union's stance on the
       lingering crisis in the education sector was as a result of the
       opposition's infiltration intothe union.
       It said the opposition wants to portray the government as
       irrational and uncaring to theplight of the lecturers and their
       students as well as present the government in bad light to
       Nigerians and the international community.
       The government in breaking the negotiation has decided to fund
       individual student's education as it is done in advanced
       countries.
       As a way of making nonsense of the industrial action by ASUU,
       SaharaReporters gathered that the government plans to introduce
       loans to the students throughout their period in the university
       so as to cushionthe effect of the financial hardship on the
       students.
       The government expects the students to re-pay the loans after
       graduation provided they get jobs of their choice. It however
       could not be ascertained how the loan to the students would
       compel the lecturers to call off the strike.
       The National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagee, had last week
       during a press conference at the University of Lagos,
       Nigeriasaid the union had pulled out of the negotiation between
       the union and the Nigerian government citing insincerity as
       reason for its decision, adding that the unionwould not call off
       its strike until the agreement the government signed with the
       union in 2009 is honoured.
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