is set to open Nigerian Universities with or without ASUU,
according to ScanNews Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday, November 4, meet
with the leadership of ASUU at the Presidential Villa.
An official of the Vice President's office who pleaded anonymity
told Scan News that all hands are now on deck to ensure that
the Universities resume next week.
The President will at next Monday's meeting present to the ASUU
leadership the administration's last concession for them to call
off the prolonged strike.
A source at the Presidential Villa noted that if ASUU fails to call
off, the Federal Government will then resort to plan B, which will
be to compulsorily open the Universities, using the instrumentality
of the governing councils and the school managements.
Already, most of the governing councils of the Universities have
started meeting to work out modalities for the compulsory re-
opening of the Universities should ASUU fail to honour the
personal request of President Jonathan.
It was gathered that security report available to the Presidency
may have necessitated this line of action to salvage the
Universities system from the direction it is facing at present.
This is getting out of hand than expected.
