“Nigeria is restoring trust with its people in order to provide safe learning environment and responsive services.”
“This our action is going to affect majority of the elites and the integrity of the federal government,” said NANS
Mr Afeez said the association would continue to occupy the major expressways until the strike is called off.
The minister said the right to protest as protected in the Constitution does not give right to inflict pain on others.
The assembly said this was in the interest of the poor masses and for the development of the education sector.
Usman Abubakar-Rimi, a final year medical student of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, has turned into a street food vendor due to the months-long ASUU strike.
“One of what the assembly agreed on was the three weeks’ ultimatum to resume work or their salaries should be stopped by the government.”
“The subsisting condition of Nigerian higher education is unacceptable and inconsistent with the economic development roles envisaged for them.”
The Assembly therefore called for the declaration of a ‘state of emergency’ in the nation’s education sector.
The minister says all striking tertiary institutions’ based unions except ASUU have accepted its offers to call off their strikes by next week.
