Akinremi said: “This is as a result of the directive from our National Executive Council
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According to him, students will no longer support the action of ASUU, which he described as a selfish one
“NAPS in solidarity cannot watch Nigeria students serve as victim of resolvable action of both authorities. And as such, we are sending this as warning, that if the strike continues any further, we shall mobilise the entire Nigeria students to barricade all locations in the federation until normalcy is returned
The Zonal Coordinator of the union in charge of Kano Zone, Dr. Rabi’u Nasiru, told newsmen in Kano on Wednesday that ASUU had not changed its position on its demand for the implementation of the 2009 agreement
According the statement, the spiritual intervention has become necessary in order to resolve the plight of the students who have been sitting idly at home
In one of such frivolities, the APC said President and his party folks feasted joyously at a post-Peoples Democratic Party convention dinner even as hapless students were bemoaning their fate over the strike
While we accuse political leaders of selfishness, there is no difference between them and some of the lecturers in their seeming connivance in the promotion of private universities and patronage of foreign institutions, to the expense of our public universities
Represented by Prof. Ruqayyat Rufai, the Minister of Education, the President said N30 billion had been released for the payment of earned allowances in all public universities
He said the Industrial action embarked upon by the union was due to the Federal Government’s failure to fulfil the 2009 agreement it had with the union about saving Nigeria’s education system from collapsing
” I am appealing to you, sir, to help in bringing to an end the lingering ASUU strike to restore normalcy to the nation’s universities,” he said
It stated that respecting its pact with ASUU would end the current industrial action by the union that had paralysed academic activities in the nation’s state and federal universities
“We need to make choices in this country as we are getting to the stage where recurrent expenditures take the bulk of our resources and people get paid but can do no work.
“And these issues that ASUU is fighting for have to do with
infrastructure, funding and conducive environment for learning and all
capture such nuts and bolts that drive the system
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the university teachers, under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities, embarked on what they described as “total, comprehensive and indefinite” strike on June 30
Make told newsmen that government was not unmindful of the impact of the strike, which is entering the fourth week, on both parents and students
Rufa’I, who made the appeal at a meeting with vice-chancellors of Nigerian universities in Abuja, said: “We plead with them to go back to classes
The minister, who was answering questions from journalists in Abuja, did not give any hint on the details of the offer made by the government to the union, but maintained that government was still expecting ASUU’s response