The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday announced a one month warning strike over government’s failure to meet its demands.
ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made the disclosure at a press conference after a two-day meeting of it’s National Executive Council (NEC).
Osodeke noted that the warning industrial action commences begins immediately, stressing that, it is “comprehensive and total”.
The union claims that attempts to have a roundtable discussion with the Nigerian government has fell on deaf ears.
ASUU is demanding the revitalisation of public universities, earned allowance, improved funding of state universities, and promotion arrears.
Other demands are the replacement of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) with University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) in the payment of emoluments to its member.
In 2009, the university union had reached an agreement with the government which was subject to review every three years.
The union said since the deal was renegotiated, the federal government has failed to sign and implement the contents.
In 2020, ASUU had embarked on an eight month strike over the government’s failure to honour its part of the deal. The lecturers, however, called off the strike after a series of meetings with the Federal Government.
Following the suspension, the Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Chris Ngige, had vowed not to allow the lecturers to go on strike again.
“I will not give ASUU the opportunity to go on strike because I have three biological children that suffered from this imbroglio that we found ourselves in and about 15 people on my scholarship in Nigerian universities,” the Minister said days after the lecturers suspended the strike.
But in November, ASUU issued a three-week ultimatum to the government over the handling of the deal.
