ASUU Strike: Students, brace up for a long stay at home as DSS arrest strike leaders
daily Nov 11, 2018 8:55 PM The government seem not to be ready to negotiate with ASUU and they have even decided to take hard measures against the lecturers. The Department of State Services (DSS) has detained the Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) chapters of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) and Bauchi State University, Gadau, Dr Adamu Babayo. The Vice Chairman of the association, Dr Ibrahim Maina, condemned the action at a joint press conference on Sunday in Bauchi. Maina alleged that Babayo was detained by the DSS operatives on Sunday, when he was invited to the department’s headquarters in Bauchi. He said: “the ASUU Chairman, Adamu Babayo was invited through a Short Service Message ( SMS) which is not a formal way of invitation. “On Friday he received a text message requesting him to report to the DSS office in Bauchi on Sunday. He went to the office together with some of the executives of the associati...