By Ajuma Edwina Ameh
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday, embarked on a one-month warning strike.
The latest strike action is a continuation of a nine-month strike that grounded academic activities in 2020 for the same reasons.
The lecturers threatened to embark on another round of industrial action following the alleged “government’s unfaithfulness” in the implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) it signed with them.
Persecondnews recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari, had recently assured Nigerians that his administration would honour the agreements it reached with ASUU to prevent lecturers from downing tools in universities.
Announcing the strike after a long meeting which started on Sunday evening at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Victor Osodeke, said the industrial action is “comprehensive and total”.
Osodeke lamented that the union’s demands have been neglected after several meetings with Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige.
The demands include revitalization of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) promotion arrears, renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, and inconsistencies in Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS) payments.
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