Breaking: ASUU Begins 1 Month Strike as FG Fails to Meet Demands

• The Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU has agreed to embark on a one-month warning strike

• The strike his aimed at pressing home its demands to the Federal Government

• After the warning strike, if the union and FG fail to reach an agreement, it has threatened to go on an indefinite strike

Following serious deliberations that went into the early hours of Monday, the National Executive Council, NEC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has agreed to embark on a warning strike for one month.

Members of the union’s National Executive Council held a meeting that went on from Saturday to Monday at the University of Lagos.
According to Vanguard’s sources, the strike action was taken to allow the government to do the needful to prevent the union from going on an indefinite strike if their demands are not met.

“We just want to give the government a long rope hoping that it would see the need to avoid a total paralysis of academic activities in the nation’s universities.”

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The strike comes after the union’s meeting at the University of Abuja in November last year when ASUU president Emmanuel Osodeke lamented that the government had failed to meet its demands. Some of the demands that remain unmet include funding for revitalization of universities, earned academic allowances, and University Transparency Accountability Solution.

Following the complaint, the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba promised that the union would be paid but they weren’t.

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