Strike: If courts force lecturers back to work, what kind of teaching will students get, ASUU asks

The President academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has wondered what manner of teaching the lecturers will give to students if they were forced by the courts to go back to the work against their will.

It will be ASUU has been on strike since February this year on the failure of government to implement agreement it entered with them, one of which was to improve the infrastructure on campuses.

Tired of the situation, the government took ASUU to court.

In a bid to resolve the impasse, the Speaker, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila called for a tripartite meeting of ASUU, the government and the House leadership on Tuesday.

In attendance were the ASUU president and members of his executive, as well as the Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Oppiah.

The meeting which began by 3pm later went into a closed door session.

However, before the closed, the Speaker had appealed to both ASUU and the government to shift grounds for the students to return to the classrooms.

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