Students in Nigeria’s federal universities, will have to spend another three months at home, following the extension of the strike action called by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
This was despite the meeting called by the Federal Government with leaders of the body for Monday, a day after the union ended its two-month warning strike.
Emmanuel Osodeke, President of ASUU in a statement, announced the rollover of the strike for 12 weeks, saying, this was to give the government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.
Stressing that the roll-over strike was effective from 12.01 am, May 8, 2021, ASUU said it took this decision after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, which started on Sunday night at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja,
Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour, had said on Friday that a meeting would be held on Monday, to examine outstanding concerns, in a situation where students had remained at home since March as a result of the dispute.
Osodeke, had on Sunday, while stating that the union did not receive an invitation from the government, criticised the administration for being unconcerned.
Today marks the end of the Academic Staff Union of University’s two-month warning strike (ASUU), warning of an extension of the strike.
He said: “If the Federal Government fails to satisfy all requests, the union has vowed to go on indefinite strike,” pointing to some of the unresolved issues as ASUU’s request for the release of revitalisation money for universities, as well as the renegotiation and implementation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement.
They also talked about the government’s refusal to disburse earned allowances for university teachers and to deploy the UTAS payment platform for the payment of university lecturers’ salaries.