ASUU STRIKE: US Expresses Worries Over ASUU/FG Impasse

Addressing journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, the US Embassy Cultural Affairs Officer, Bill Strassberger, urged the government to resolve the crisis with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, saying “it is a fear, it is a worry for us.”

Nigeria currently has about 7,028 students studying at over 700 institutions in the USA.

“That is something for the Nigerian government. It is up to it to work it out with the striking lecturers.

“We are not involved in that negotiation but we can encourage. It is a fear, it is a worry for us because that would make it hard for the students to come.

“It may be difficult, but there is no magic wand to resolve the strike,” the US Embassy Cultural Affairs Officer, Bill Strassberger

“Those are the touts, those are the people that I will even call criminals because they are stealing opportunities by selling only documents by giving bad information and creating a disappointment when the person comes in with that information or with only document. And that is the result of not getting accurate information,” he said.