ASUU rules out returning to classes through court order
. Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila (right); Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah; Vice President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Chris Piwuna and ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke during the Speaker’s meeting with ASUU, Minister of Education and Minister of Labour and Productivity, at the National Assembly Abuja…yesterday. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), yesterday, dropped a hint that lecturers cannot be compelled to return to classes in the event of an order by the National Industrial Court of Arbitration ASUU National President, Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known during a parley with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. Osodeke, accompanied by ASUU executives, likened the scenario to a court order to force a medical doctor to treat a patient. Expressing dissatisfaction with the conduct of the Mallam Adamu Adamu-led Ministry of Education, he described the seven-month strike as symptoma...