The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has vowed to go on indefinite strike over the Federal Government’s inability to follow a 2009 deal signed with it, Cyber Reporters report.
Prof. Timothy Namo, the union’s Bauchi Zonal Coordinator, announced this during a news conference in Jos on Friday.
Namo stated that the union issued a 21-day ultimatum following the meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC) on August 17 and 18.
He said: ”As we speak, the government has not honour any of the agreements or addressed our concerns.
”At the expiration of the 21-day ultimatum, we again issued another 14-day ultimatum that commenced from Sept. 23.
”So, we want Nigerians to blame the federal government if ASUU decides to down tools and shut down public universities,”
Namo emphasized the ongoing difficulties, including the failure to conclude the re-negotiation of the 2009 agreement, the non-release of academic staff’s three-and-a-half month pay, unpaid salaries for all academic staff on adjunct appointments, and outstanding third-party deductions.
Other persistent difficulties, he noted, included inadequate funding for the revitalization of public institutions, nonpayment of Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) as outlined in the 2023 budget, university proliferation, and failure to execute visitation panel reports, among others.
