JUST IN: ASUU finally declares nationwide strike
After many warnings, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has officially declared a nationwide strike beginning from Monday, February 14.
Emmanuel Victor Osodeke, the national president of ASUU, broke the news during a press conference on Monday following a two-day deliberation of the union’s national executive council (NEC).
Osodeke said the industrial action is “comprehensive and total”.
Members of the NEC, encompassing ASUU leaders across campuses, had been holding meetings since Saturday, the latest of which was at the University Of Lagos (UNILAG).
ASUU had decided to embark on the two-day meeting after it sensitised and mobilised lecturers and students across all varsities on the reason the union might go on a strike.
The union, which embarked on a nine-month strike that halted university education in 2020, had lamented the failure of the federal government to fulfill some of the agreements they had reached to suspend the industrial action.
It added that the mobilisation for strike followed the federal government’s attitude towards the renegotiation of their salaries and allowances as well as the adoption of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) payroll software.
But President Muhammadu Buhari had recently assured that his administration would honour its agreements with the union to prevent incessant strikes in the education sector.
“My administration is committed to this engagement and dialogue, and I urge them to stay the course towards a joint resolution in the best interest of our children and nation,” he had said.
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