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ASUU embarked on strike on February 14, 2022, over the government’s failure to meet its demands including improved university funding.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its industrial action which is in its sixth month.
The union extended the ongoing strike on Monday morning after its National Executive Council meeting at its headquarters at the University of Abuja.
ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, earlier confirmed that the union’s NEC would meet on Monday to decide on whether to call off the strike based on the Nigerian government’s offer or declare an indefinite strike.
Ahead of Monday’s NEC meeting, it was gathered that most of the state chapters of ASUU voted for the continuation of the strike.
ASUU embarked on strike on February 14, 2022, over the government’s failure to meet its demands including improved university funding.
But while the government has addressed some of ASUU’s demands, the university lecturers’ union rejected the 35 percent salary increase. Osodeke described the government’s offer as “miserly.”
