The Federal Government has given striking lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, a one-week ultimatum to call off the ongoing strike.
Acting Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike gave the directive today in Abuja, while speaking with journalists.
This is coming on the heels of a statement credited to a member of the union who dismissed the minister’s announcement on about the union making new demands, as a blatant lie.
The lecturers had at their NEC meeting last week in Kano, demanded that government should pay the four-month salary arrears being owed varsity lecturers while there should be immediate implementation of the N1.2tn offerred by the government to public varsities, starting with the release of N100bn this year, before the strike can be called off, a demand the acting Minister Wike described as “outrageous”.
Nothing is binding yet, as the union is yet to meet with President Jonathan. ASUU had said it would meet with the president on the decisions reached at its NEC meeting before making any announcement concerning the 5 months old strike.
wike is a big fool..i will personally advice mr president to sack him cos the man is so arrogant and rude,he’s not a good leader. A good leader must be a good listener to the people he/she is govern not dictator like wike..mr president don’t allow hoodulum minister to spoil ur good vision for this country …i imagine how fg will declare the seat of one and only professor in neurosurgeon(unijos) in the whole northern region vacancy, do wike think consultancy(in medicine), professorship are so cheap to get in market??? Is like dis wike doesn’t understand the ground our intellect lecturers(asuu) are standing..somebody should please sit him down and xplain to him
I think,federal gov’shuld pls consider assu bcos we re tired of staying at home.
It’s a real plesaure to find someone who can think like that