The federal government said yesterday that its activities in the country could possibly shut down if the Academic Staff Unionof Universities (ASUU) and other sectors in the country insist on the total compliance with their demands.

This is even as the minister of education, Prof Ruqayyat Rufa’i has alleged that ASUU was bent on portraying the federal government in a bad light by claiming that after signing the agreement in 2009, nothing has been done.

Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, who stated this while addressing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, noted that the federal government had been spending a lot of money on the development of tertiary education across the country.

According to Maku, although government nurses with passion to sustain a good working relationship with ASUU, the unionmust have a rethink on its demands by taking into consideration the fact that there are many competing demands onthe federal government from other sectors.

He added that but for the proliferation of violence in the northern part of the country perpetrated by Boko Haram, which has also cost the federal government huge amount of money in terms of restoring normalcy, much would have been done to upgrade the education sector.