The Academic Staff Union of Universities has given the federal government a 21-day notice before embarking on a nationwide strike over the non-implementation of agreements reached months ago.
The national president of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, in a notice issued at the end of the National Executive Council meeting of ASUU, said the notice is not an ultimatum but a strike notice, stating that the agreements reached with the federal government had not been implemented.
Osodeke said members were owed academic allowances accumulated for over six years despite an agreement based on the needs assessment report to raise N200 billion yearly for five years.
Osodeke added that the government had yet to stop the proliferation of universities, adding that many new universities were being approved without funds to run them.
Recall on June 26, the Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, invited the union to a meeting to deliberate on the lingering issues affecting universities and to avert the planned strike.
