ASUU: Govt to reopen varsities, calls meeting of pro-chancellors, VCs
From left, Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, All Progressives Congress Vice Presidential Candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima, Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa State, Plateau State Governor and Director-General of Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organization, Simon Lalong and Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq of Kwara State when Tinubu led APC chieftains on a courtesy visit to the former president in Abuja. THERE are indications that despite the insistence of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to continue its lingering strike, the Federal Government is set to reopen shut universities. According to sources in the Federal Ministry of Education, the academic staff are not the only set of workers in the university system and since non-academic staff are ready to go back to work, the universities should no longer be shut. According to the source, “Moreov...