The former VC stressed that when lecturers have people coming from all over the world to their laboratories, they have no time for strikes.Also, a research assistant at the University of Abuja, Humphrey Ukeaja, said strikes are affecting students and becoming a mockery.
He called on the federal government to consider the implication of another industrial strike on our education and national security and find a lasting solution to the contending issues raised by ASUU.Meanwhile, indications emerged yesterday that the National Association of Resident Doctors may have reached an agreement with the federal government over its ongoing strike.
The government, through the Federal Ministry of Health, also said it had forwarded a list from 38 hospitals to the Budget Office for inclusion in the Service Wide Vote.The truce was brokered following the intervention of the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association led by Prof Innocent Uja. The Ministry of Labour and Employment, in a statement by its deputy director of press and public relations, Charles Akpan, said the president had directed the minister, Dr Chris Ngige, to side step every technicality and re-commence conciliation, especially in the background of the alternative dispute resolution window provided by the National Industrial Court, where the matter was referred to under the instrument of article 17 of the Trade Disputes Act.