ASUU declares one-month warning strike

By our reporter| The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared a one-month warning strike.

President of the union, Emmanuel Osodeke, who made the disclosure at a press conference on Monday after a two-day meeting of the union’s National Executive Council (NEC), said the industrial action, which begins immediately, is “comprehensive and total”.

“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 said

Some of the lecturer’s demands include the revitalisation of public universities, earned allowance, improved funding of state universities, and promotion arrears.

Others are the replacement of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) with its own University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) in the payment of emoluments to its member.

Before the latest move, the union had embarked on a sensitisation campaign across campuses in the country, leading to lecture-free periods.

ASUU also said the 2009 agreement reached with the Federal Government ought to be reviewed every three years. But the union said since the deal was renegotiated, the Federal Government has failed to sign and implement the contents.

ASUU had, in 2020 embarked on a nine-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.