The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended the ongoing strike by 12 weeks.
The decision came Monday morning during an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) held at the ASUU Secretariat in Abuja.
According to a statement signed by ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, teh latest extension was to give the government enough time to fully resolve all the outstanding issues.
The meeting, which had all principal officers in attendance started on Sunday and ended early Monday morning. Also in attendance were all state chairmen of the union.
The two-month rollover strike declared on March 14, 2022 by ASUU ended today (May 9th), thus NEC felt the need to extend it by 12 weeks after initial agitation for an indefinite strike because of failure to address the issues in contention.
This development means that universities would remain on strike.
It also stated that the roll-over strike was effective from 12.01 am, May 8, 2021.
At the last meeting with the government negotiation team led by Prof. Nimi Briggs, ASUU officials walked out.
ASUU’s demands include the non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) signed with government in December 2020 on funding for revitalisation of public universities (both federal and states), renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ ASUU Agreement and the deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).
Other outstanding issues are earned academic allowances; state universities, promotion arrears, withheld salaries, non-remittance of third-party deductions and rejection of UTAS that ASUU technical team developed to replace the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
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