*The Academic Staff Union of Universities says its ongoing one-month warning national industrial action is 鈥榗omprehensive and total鈥� because the Federal Government has not met the lecturers鈥� demands

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared a month鈥檚 warning strike nationwide.

绿帽献妻 reports Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, President of ASUU, announced this at a press conference Monday, February 14, 2022, after a two-day meeting of the academic union鈥檚 National Executive Council (NEC).

Sodeke said that the industrial action, which begins immediately Monday is 鈥渃omprehensive and total.

Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, President of ASUU (2nd from right) at a recent meeting of the academic union

鈥淲e don鈥檛 like to see our students at home. We don鈥檛 want our academic calendars disrupted but our demands are not met.”

Hitherto, the demands of the lecturers 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.

As a buildup to the warning strike, the academic union reportedly 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.

However, ASUU said since the deal was renegotiated, the Federal Government neither signed nor implemented the contents.

Recall that ASUU in 2020, embarked on a nine-month national strike over the government鈥檚 alleged failure to honour the deal.

The lecturers, however, embarked on a strike after a series of meetings with the Federal Government.

Sequel to suspension of the strike, the Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Sen.(Dr.) Chris Ngige, vowed not to allow the lecturers resume strike again.

Sen. Ngige had said: 鈥淚 will not give ASUU the opportunity to go on strike because I have three biological children that suffered from this imbroglio that we found ourselves in and about 15 people on my scholarship in Nigerian universities.鈥�

Again, ASUU November 2021, had issued a three-week ultimatum to the government over the handling of the agreement.

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