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---- Dr Fage

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Nasir Fage, gives an insight into the real issues at the core of the current strike action embarked by Nigerian university lecturers. In this exclusive interview with the publisher of Daybreak Magazine, Comrade Daniel Onjeh, Dr Fage reiterated his union’s resolve to press on with the strike as the unresolved issues outweighs Government’s propaganda and blackmail. Fage is convinced that his union’s course is just.

The strike action embarked upon by the university lectures have become an issue of serious concern to all well-meaning Nigerians. While some are very informed about the underlying issues, most are in the dark.

The dialogue between ASUU and the Federal Government hit the rock when the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, declared, “Take it or leave it, the Federal Government is not going to release an extra ten kobo to fund university education”

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