Strike: Take ASUU To Court For Stalling Resumption, Says Education Minister

The Minister of Education, Professor Adamu Adamu, has advised Nigerian students to drag ASUU to court for wasting their time at home.

The Minister hinted this on Thursday while answering a question on how the government would compensate the Nigerian students on Thursday at the 47th Session of the State House Briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

He also hinted that the implementation of the federal government ‘no-work-no-pay’ policy is the only condition delaying the truce with ASUU.

According to him, the federal government bears no liability to compensate millions of students who've been left stranded in the last six months.

The minister also noted that ASUU had not called off the strike because of their demand that all salaries during the industrial action be paid, a request the minister said the government turned down.

Adamu said other issues had been sorted out.

He, however, said that four of five unions in the tertiary institutions across the country had agreed to call off the strike within the next one week, stressing that such a decision can only be announced after meeting with their executives.