ASUU Strike: The journey so far!

ASUU strike took off August 13, the union embarked on the indefinite strike stating the failure of the federal government to
honour aspects of past
agreements of it members alongside other things.

Throughout the period of the ongoing strike, several meetings have been held between the ASUU union and the federal government in which the first ever organised meeting  resulted in deadlock.

Meanwhile, the latest report about the ongoing ASUU strike states that, the three non-academic staff unions in the public universities which comprises of the Senior Staff Association
of Nigerian Universities, SSANU; Non-Academic
Staff Union of Universities, NASU; and the
National Association of Academic
Technologists, NAAT, have however declared an
indefinite strike starting on Monday, September
11.

The commencement of the strike was made by the Chairman of Joint Action Committee of the
associations who is also the President of
SSANU, Samson Ugwoke.

Samson made this known at a press conference in Abuja yesterday September 6th.

According to him:

“During the strike, there shall be no provision of
services, no matter how skeletal. Concessions
shall not be granted while all our members are
to stay at home till further notice, unless as
directed by JAC through their respective
presidents".

Further speaking, he stated that;

"The 10 issues in contention are non-payment of
earned allowance, lack of good governance,
poor funding as against UNESCO
recommendation, inadequate infrastructure in
universities and abandoned projects, shortfall in
payment of salaries".

Still speaking on the government's shortcomings, he added;
"Uniiversity staff school: NIC judgment implementation, non-
registration of NUPEMCO, non-implementation
of CONTISS 14 AND 15 for technologists,
problem of lack of adequate teaching and
learning facilities in the universities, corruption
in the university system, lack of
serious renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/
university unions agreements and usurpation of
headship of non-teaching units by academic
staff".