The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has listed two conditions that will make striking teachers of public universities return to the classrooms.
The terms, according to ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, are “concrete agreements” with the Federal Government and an order by the National Industrial Court (NiC).
Osodeke, at a national town hall meeting on tertiary education in Abuja yesterday, also said that ASUU was still open for talks with the government on the issues that led to the strike which began on February 14.
He expressed dismay at the government’s resort to litigation as a way of ending the work boycott by university teachers.
The ASUU President warned that the court action by the government was not in the interest of students, their parents, and the nation.
At the Abuja town hall meeting tagged “The Locked Gates of our Citadels: A National Emergency,” the ASUU President said the union had given the government “minimum conditions’ ‘, especially on the issues of revitalization and earned allowances of its members.
Osodeke, who expressed sadness over the lingering strike, said that suing the union was not an option as it would further worsen the case of students.
