JUST IN ! ASUU May Go on a Comprehensive and Total Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to embark on a comprehensive and total strike.

The National Executive Council of the union are currently meeting in Abuja while insider sources that interacted with newsmen indicate that the current warning strike may extend indefinitely.

One of the NEC members told newsmen this Sunday afternoon that “Yes, we are meeting today on the ongoing strike and other matters.”

Asked if there was hope that the ongoing industrial action would be called off so Nigerian students could return to the classrooms, the source told Punch that, “Not likely. There is no positive development that I know of.”

On his part, ASUU president, Prof Emmanuel Osodoke confirmed that the NEC was indeed holding today but gave no details.

ASUU’s emergency meeting is coming a day to the expiration of the one-month warning strike by the union.

The lecturers embarked on the strike on Monday, 14th of February, 2022 when thy declared a total and comprehensive one-month warning strike.

According to the union, the decision to down tools was due to the failure of the government to implement the agreement the Federal Government signed with the union in 2009.

ASUU had also accused the Federal Government of working against the deployment of the UTAS, a payment platform designed by ASUU in lieu of the IPPIS payment system.

While the two body maintain a status quo, parents and varsity students are lamenting bitterly over the educational system in the country, faulting both the government and the union of lecturers.

Speaking with Channels Television earlier on Saturday, Osodeke said, “Nothing tangible has been done so far. We have met with the Minister of Labour twice.

“We gave a room for them (NIREC) to intervene and they did. What we see is a lack of will and lack of interest in the public university system.

“The strike didn’t need to last more than one week if the government had taken it seriously. When they had a problem in Ukraine where the sons of the rich were studying, we saw how fast they released money, but in the country where the children of the poor are studying, nothing has been done.”

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