The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has extended its strike by 3 months, after the expiration of the initial one month strike..
President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke confirmed the development to journalist, after a National Emergency meeting held in Abuja, on Monday.
He noted that the extension was to give the government more time to resolve the outstanding issues.
“After extensive deliberations, noting Government’s failure to live up to its responsibilities and speedily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA) within the additional eight-week roll–over strike period declared on 14th March 2022, NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for twelve weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues,” he said.
ASUU, had embarked on a one-month strike on February 1 over the failure of the Nigerian Government to honour the various agreements reached with them.
Some of the Union’s demands include the release of revitalisation funds for universities, renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement, release of earned allowances for university lecturers, and deployment of the UTAS payment platform for the payment of salaries and allowances of university lecturers.
