The Academic Staff Union of Universities has declared a “comprehensive and total” strike.

The strike was declared at a press conference addressed by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, on Monday.

He said the strike, which takes effect from Monday, February 14, 2022, would last for an initial period of four weeks.

According to him, the union tried to avoid the strike but the Federal Government is unresponsive to the union’s demands.

“We don’t like to see our students at home. We don’t want our academic calendars disrupted but our demands are not met,” he added.

The ASUU chairman also said ASUU NEC faulted the creation of new universities.

Osodeke asked the Federal Government to call the Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, to order over the unpaid Earned Academic Allowances of its members in the university.



“We have an agreed template with FG but the VC refused to pay. Failure to pay using that template is a misappropriation. He should be cautioned,” the ASUU president said.

Members of the union’s National Executive Council had held marathon meetings since Saturday at the University of Lagos titled, ‘NEC for NEC.’

ASUU had sensitised and mobilised lecturers and students across all universities on the reason the union might likely go on strike.


Backgound
The union had expressed grievances over the failure of the Federal Government to fulfil some of the agreements it made as far back as 2009. ASUU had on November 15, 2021, given the federal government a three-week ultimatum over the failure to meet the demands.

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 it signed with the union, leading to the suspension of the 2020 strike action.

After the union’s National Executive Council meeting at the University of Abuja on November 13 and 14, ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, lamented that despite meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, on October 14, 2021, on issues, including funding for revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution; promotion arrears, renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement, and the inconsistencies in Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System Payment, none of its demands had been met.

Following the threat, the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, promised that the union would be paid.

A few weeks after, ASUU suspended the planned strike, as N22.1 billion earned allowances were paid to lecturers in federal universities.

On the heels of the union’s renewed agitations, the co-chairmen of the National Inter-religious Council, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Abubakar III, and the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, visited the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), last month, over the lack of implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding the government signed with ASUU in 2009 and others.

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Source: https://punchng.com/BREAKING-At-last-ASUU-declares-nationwide-strike

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Tufiakwa

Every sector of Nigeria is in total collapse

Na wa

Next Nigeria president need to change things for better. This useless organization called ASSU must be sanction.

The solution to ASUU problem is very simple, all our politicians must send their children to government higher institutions.

Boys and girls

Fasten your seatbelt
You're bout to go for one hell of a ride

If na handwork you wan learn, learn it now
If na olosho you wan do
Do am.well gather money now

ASUU strike go long pass third mainland bridge

johnmartus:
Next Nigeria president need to change things for better. This useless organization called ASSU must be sanction.

This one is always here disgracing himself. Illiterate zombie

Thank God say me don comot for the queue.
But make this government do the needful na, what am i even saying? When the government is being led by a fulani man who never saw the four walls of a university, a man who value the worth of his livestock far more than he values the worth of a good education, something should be done ASAP oo.

There should always be a way to resolve issues like this rather than strike on every quarter.

Emdes:
What crime have I committed to school in Nigeria? Imagine a 4 years course or 6 years and still counting

Who did we wrong

Blame the Federal Govt
ASUU gave so many warning on an impending strike but government turned deaf ear.

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Special timing by ASUU. Campus couples gonna have a swell time tonight before heading home. I'm grateful to God for being out of this silly system. Suffered at least 3 episodes during my undergraduate days. Hopefully this silly administration will put on their thinking cap soonest. This nonsense has to stop

ASUU and strike be like 5 &6

Here we go again.

From what i heard they are still deciding am sure they would go for strike

Cc sinkhole what's the update?

NobIeKING:
Cc sinkhole what's the update?

one-month rollover warning strike

God help our educational sector

Yeeeeeh yeeeeee emotional daaaaamage

Nonsense

NobIeKING:
then why is this lecturer fixing class today for us?
Abi she just come from Mars.
By the way na God even do make the strike start cos I needed money to sort school bills.
So I support the strike even though I'm in final year

The strike officially started yesterday, but each branch person will have to come, in person, to their branch and physically declare the strike.
Perhaps, your school's ASUU chairperson is yet to come back from Lagos to call congress and declare the strike!