The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that extension by
another 12 weeks, will make it 20 weeks students will stay at home.
Osodeke told NAN in a telephone interview on Monday in Abuja
said that the extension was due to the Federal Government failure to implement
the agreement entered with the union.
NAN reports that the union had embarked on a nationwide
warning strike from Feb. 14 to press home its members’ demands.
The first warning strike started on Feb. 14 for four weeks
and the second strike commenced on March 15 for another four weeks, while the
third one is announced on May 9 for another 12 weeks
The lecturers’ demands include funding of the Revitalisation
of Public Universities, Earned Academic Allowances, University Transparency
Accountability Solution (UTAS) and promotion arrears.
Others are the renegotiation of 2009 ASUU-FG Agreement and
the inconsistency in Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System.
NAN recalls that the union during its last National
Executive Council (NEC) meeting noted that it was disappointed that government
had not treated the matters with utmost urgency they deserved and as expected
of a reasonable, responsive, and well-meaning administration.
“NEC viewed government’s response so far as a continuation
of the unconscionable, mindless and nonchalant attitude of the Nigerian ruling
elite toward the proven path of the national development which is education.
“NEC, having taken reports on the engagement of the trustees
and principal officers with the government concluded that government had failed
to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum
of Action within the four-weeks-roll over strike period.
“NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for another 12
weeks to give government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms
so that government will resume as soon as possible, ”it said. (NAN)