 The federal government has declared illegal the planned protests by the Nigeria Labor Congress in solidarity with the striking members of the academic staff union of universities. The minister of information and culture, Lai Muhammad, told state house correspondents after the federal executive council meeting presided over by President Muhammad Buhari on Wednesday. Muhammad stressed that the NLC was in no dispute with the federal government and as such considered its planned street protest illegal. The information minister said that the Congress's planned action was based on self-interest and a planned action was capable of stoking anarchy. It's supposed to be completely, completely insulated from politics. Now if we declare this protest without a certificate, we won't strike. But this particular NLC asking and mobilizing people to come out and strike with the federal government is clearly unlawful. The federal government is as worried as NLC and everybody. But the law is the law. What we are saying is that rather than what I expect NLC to do as an unlawful body is to find a solution, to join federal government. And this is what their part of the corporate agreement that I've been negotiating with the federal government on this as so usual. So why are they now going out to take sides? I would be surprised if you say they're going ahead with this NLC demonstration, knowing fully well that that is not permissible in international equivalence. It's all about that interest. And so when interest supersedes the correct reasoning, you get this kind of situation. To the voluntarism situation, the Minister of Education volunteered and said, give me two weeks. My proposal to him was one week for him to handle. And he said I need more than one week. In two weeks, sir. I mean, I hope it will be resolved.