ASUU Strike: FG insists on ‘No Work No Pay’ Policy
The Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah, has insisted that there is no going back on the Federal Government’s “no work, no policy” stance as far as the industrial action embarked upon by the Academic Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) is concerned.
The minister, who was on a working visit to the Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State, disclosed that having done what ASUU demanded, the government expected the university teachers to go back to school unconditionally.
In a statement from his office, Opiah, who said that the Federal Government has done its best to resolve the crisis, averred that the “no work, no policy” is a universal policy that is not peculiar to the country alone.
ASUU Strike: FG insists on ‘No Work No Pay’ Policy
While regretting that the strike has caused a setback in the education sector where the government, students, parents, and lecturers are the major losers, he requested pro-chancellors and heads of governing councils of universities to come into the matter and convince ASUU to reconsider its position.
The minister who was in the university to assess the level of development of the institution established 11 years ago, used the opportunity to appraise TETFund’s intervention in the infrastructural development of the school, as well as security arrangements on the campus given worsening insecurity in the country.
While praising the school’s management for the pace of development recorded so far since, the minister called for continued harmony between the governing council, led by Senator Chris Adighije, and the management, adding that such will facilitate the needed development for academic excellence.
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