ASUU extends strike as 3-months initial extension elapses

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has extended its industrial action.

The union of university lecturers have embarked on the industrial action for over five months ago.

ASUU has extended the industrial action by another four weeks.

MOUTHPIECE NGR recalls that the striking lecturers shut down public universities on February 14, 2022.

This came following the inability of the Federal Government to fulfill the agreement in a Memorandum of Action (MoA) entered by the two parties in 2020.

The National President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke via a statement on Monday, said the decision to further extend the industrial action was to make sure the FG satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues raised.

The development was arrived at an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council of the union which took place at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, Abuja, on Sunday.

The statement partly reads, “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of Government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA), NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for four weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.

“The role-over strike action is with effect from 12.01am on Monday, 1st August 2022”.