 and in an effort to resolve the lingering strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASU, the leadership of the Iowa Consultative Forum ACF in Kaduna met with the management of the state's institution and members of the Kaduna State University Chapter of ASU. They pleaded for a call of the strike to allow students' return to academic activities. Speaking afterwards, the chairman of the ACF Kaduna State Chapter, Laual Omar Mere, said that the meeting was necessitated by the need to liaise with all stakeholders in order to resolve the strike and ensure that students not only return to classes, but are allowed to write their examinations in the state-owned institutions. Mere stated that most of the demands raised by ASU has nothing to deal with CASU, other than that there is a need to join hands together and ensure that one of the best state-owned universities is open for lectures as soon as possible for the sake of the students. The problem with the national ASU strike, we believe, does not affect the state universities. They join initially as solidarity, and now it has escalated. And we are very much concerned with the progress of this university, and we realize that it is one of the best state universities in the nation. And so we have to come and throw our hand of friendship to the management of the university to see how we can come to the end of this problem of strike in this university. Responding on behalf of the institution, the acting vice-chancellor of the Kaduna State University, Professor Abdelay Ashafa, commanded the ACF for their intervention, noting that it may not be unconnected with the threat of the state governor to suck striking workers who do not return to classes. The issues that the strike is on is not directly affecting issues in Kaduna State University. Rather, let them return and concentrate on those local issues that they have been raising and allow the national body of the union to dialogue and negotiate with the government. Much as the Council of the University have promised to implement to the letters all negotiations that are implementable in Kaduna State University. Asu had embarked on a strike for over six months over the government's failure to implement an agreement previously reached.