President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday begged the Academic Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend its five-month-old strike, IgbereTV reports
ASUU embarked on a 30-day warning strike on February 14 to protest the non-implementation of the agreements reached with the Federal Government.
The union had extended the strike three times since it commenced about 150 days ago.
Buhari, according to a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made the call when some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, legislators, and other party leaders paid him Sallah homage in Daura, Katsina.
This was the second time President Buhari will appeal to ASUU to suspend the strike.
The president during the 19th National Productivity Day and the conferment of the National Productivity Order of Merit Award on 48 eminent Nigerians and organisations held in May in Abuja appealed to the union to consider the plight of the students and end the strike.
And on Monday, he urged the varsity lecturers to reconsider their stand on the strike, saying the industrial action would have consequences on families and national development
