Fut Minna Calls Govt's Bluff

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) at the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, Niger State, yesterday called off the bluff of Federal Government, which threatened to sack them, if they fail to resume on or before December 4.

The union vowed not to suspend its five-month-old strike or sign the register opened for them by the institution.

The university yesterday opened a register for its academic workers at the Office of the Registrar in compliance with the Federal Government’s directive.

A statement yesterday in Minna by the Registrar, Victoria Kolo, reads: “Following the directive by the Supervising Minister of Education, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, with the vice chancellors of federal universities on Friday, November 29, 2013 and his directive that universities should resume on or before...