By Celestine Okafor (Editor-in-Chief)
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), ended their close-door meeting in lagos in the early hours of Monday, and resolved to shut down academic activities in the Universities again by declaring a one-month warning strike to press home its demands from the federal government.
According to ASUU, the strike is to give the government a window to urgently seek ways of finding lasting solutions to their intractable industrial dispute with the academic staff union as contained in the ASUU demands, failure of which they would proceed on an indefinite strike action afterwards.
ASUU said shortly after their conclave that: "We just want to give the government a long rope hoping that it would see the need to avoid a total paralysis of academic activities in the nation’s universities.
"We are parents too and have our children in the system but we cannot watch and allow the total collapse of education in the country.
“Our agitation is in the interest of all and if the system is made better, we will all enjoy it. Prominent personalities in the country have waded into the matter but the government seems recalcitrant.
"Our National President would explain more when he briefs the press later today".
For some years, ASUU has been crusading for a set of demands from the federal government which includes, replacement of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) with the University Transparency and Accountability System (UTAS), payment of Earned Academic Allowance and revitalization fund, etc. NNL.
