The Federal Government has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to rethink the “comprehensive, total and indefinite strike action” it declared on Monday.
The government said it had invested in the education sector, especially the universities.
Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Opiah, made a presentation to the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETfund during an oversight visit to the Federal Ministry of Education.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media/Public Affairs, Kelechi Mejuobi, Oprah said all demands of ASUU had been met.
He said the Federal Government only came up with a standard principle of “no work, no pay” which he said was a universal policy.
“The government has yielded to all the demands of ASUU. The only thing is that the government doesn’t support anyone who doesn’t work but wants pay,” the minister of state said.
Oprah, who stood in for Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, believes more had been spent through TETFUND on university infrastructure than ASUU requested.
