 Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Bajabiamila has called on the striking academic staff union of universities ASU and the government on the way out of the ongoing strike in the interest of Nigerian students. Bajabiamila, who made the call at a tripartite meeting, called at his instance to offer an immediate solution to the seven-month-old strike embarked upon by the university teachers and assisted that the horrific chapter must be closed. He stressed that the House would do all within the Constitution and its past to make sure the children are back to school and cautioned all the warring parties that negotiations are about to be made. Here to rehash the issues. I'm not going to yield to that temptation where we're going to be talking about what happened, where we got here, what government has done, what government... No, no, no, no. I believe everybody in Nigeria, we all know the issues. If by now we don't know the issues, then we haven't been existing in Nigeria. So the issues are known to all of us. What we're here for is a solution and a way forward. We are at crisis stage and it's time, unfortunately, the House has been on recess once or twice. We try to recall the House what everybody was all over the place but now we're back and we're going to do all we can constitutionally and that is in our powers to try and resolve this issue once and for all because I believe we are all on the same page on one thing and that is that our students have to go back to class. As the national president Emmanuel Oshodike, while responding to the speaker's call, lamented the indifference of the government towards the strike. By saying that one of the problems we seem to have in this country is that you learn a way to resolve all problems. It's not looked at symptom as problem, but look at the issues. What we do in this country will look at strike as a problem. But when you check, strike is just a symptom of the problem in the system. Nobody will go around our university today and will say our universities are good. Nobody, whether it is federal, it is state, nobody but we seem to look at strike as a problem and that's why in the past it's 2009, we have so many of them. When we are on strike, we have the urge to stop the strike and when the strike is over, we go back to the not to happen to issue for when there were strikes and that is the problem. To us, I also want to say that it is the seventh month this strike is on. We have never and you can check and lately we have never been called to a formal meeting by the Minister of Education, formal meeting where ministers are taking and the short taking. You can check, not one. We have only called to a meeting twice by the Minister of Labour for the seventh of February and first of March. Between there and now, we have never called for any formal meeting. I'm using the word formal. If me and you talk on formal, we sit down and just sit and talk. It's not a formal meeting. And for issues that involve collective bargaining, you don't just issue a talk on this issue. So there will never be any and we challenge the Minister of Education to produce one document, one meeting to show that the Minister of Education has called up for any formal meeting in seventh. It can never happen anywhere in the world. On his part, the Minister of State for Education, Good Law Kopia, said that the strike has become a concern and worry for all stakeholders in the education sector, including the government. About a week ago, Mr. President granted the audience to a committee of Pro-Chancellors of Nigeria universities who also took similar steps and Mr. President is listening to both sides and has resolved to make further consultations after which he will also come up with the final government stand on the issue. Mr. Speaker, this step is not out of place at all. I think it rather adds to the steps already being taken by the Executive with the intention of finding a quicker solution to this problem. And don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.