Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, said this on Tuesday in Alausa, Ikeja.
She added that the government accorded priority attention to education and would leave no stone unturned to resolve the crisis.
She said "I was in the meeting that the governor held with the students. They were saying the school fees were too high and we told them to go back and come with a programme of payment that they think would be suitable for them.
"The governor told me that the student had brought their plan a couple of days ago. He will soon present it to the executive council. So the issue of LASU is something we are taking serious.
"Very soon, you will hear our pronouncement as a government on the issue. We are not insensitive. We know what is happening and we are proactive."
The commissioner said achievements in the education sector in the last one year were monumental.
She explained that the government paid N508.6m for the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination of 47,000 Senior Secondary School pupils in the 2014 examination in the state.
The Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Education, Mr. Fatai Olukoga, said LASU lecturers were not going on strike because of school fees.
He said, "Let me say that the lecturers are only using this as gimmicks not to have lectures in the school. On the issue of promotion they are talking about there is no vacancy. There is nowhere in the world that you will be promoted where there is no vacancy."
Olukoga said the government had cautioned the lecturers on the right steps to take. He, however, added that the government was also negotiating with the lecturers.
Source: Punch Newspapers
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