The battle between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has taken a new dimension with ASUU insisting that before it calls of the strike, its members should be paid the salary of the five months they have been off the classrooms.
The Education minister, Malam Adamu Adamu, at a ministerial briefing of the newsmen today, August 18, at the Presidential villa, Abuja, said that the government has decided not to accede to such demand.
“We have done this before on compassionate ground and would not want to continue in a way that they would not take us for granted.”
Adamu Adamu said that the government is not doing what is not there, explaining that there international labour law of no work no pay.