The Federal Government of Nigeria has claimed that ‘a lot is happening behind the scenes’ as it continues to intensify efforts toward finding solutions to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made this disclosure while responding to questions from State House correspondents after the weekly federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that ASUU had in February this year began their strike action and ever since then, all the public universities have been shut down.
‘I wish that the ASUU issue is as simple as many of us think it is. I don’t think it’s that simple. But I want to assure you that a lot is going on behind the scenes.’ he said
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‘And I think probably the Minister of Education will be better positioned to give the details. But like any government, if we’re not concerned, we would not set up all the committees which have been working. If we are not concerned, we will not be looking for means to even assuage the feelings of the Union.
‘We’re worried, we’re concerned, and we’ll continue to work towards finding an early resolution of the problem,’ Mohammed said.
Meanwhile, as the strike action by the umbrella body of the Nigerian Universities trudges on into months, some students of Nigerian public universities have expressed their displeasure and frustration over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Some of the students in an interview with Newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday appealed to the Federal Government to meet at least 50 percent of ASUU demands to end the strike.
