The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said resources were not enough to meet all the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at once.
This is as the minister faulted claims of the union that the Federal Government was blackmailing it.
ASUU had given the Federal Government a three-week ultimatum on November 15th, to honour the agreement it signed with the union, which led to the suspension of the strike by university lecturers in December 2020.
The minister said that the Federal Government did not have enough resources to meet all the union’s demands at once.
However, ASUU said it would not go on strike yet even though the government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2009 agreement and the subsequent Memorandum of Understanding and Memorandum of Action between it and the Federal Government.
