Nigeria

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reacted after the  Federal Government’s payment of minimum wage arrears. ASUU insists that the Strike will still continue pending when the Federal Government  will engage them in a meaningful meeting. ASUU made this revelation via a circular released  by the University of Lagos branch of the union titled, ‘Payment of minimum wage arrears’. The union also accused the government of displaying an indifferent attitude toward its demands and agitations for a better university environment. Osodeke, in a statement to announce the extension of the rollover strike, noted that the national executive council of the union “was disappointed that Government did not treat the matters involved with utmost urgency that they deserved during the four-week period as expected of a reasonable, responsive, and well-meaning administration”. He said the NEC concluded that the government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 Memorandum of Action within the four-week roll-over strike period and resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight weeks. READ ALSO:

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He added that  the strike continues over the government’s failure to “satisfactorily” implement the Memorandum of Action it signed with the Union in December 2020 on funding for revitalization of public universities (both Federal and States), renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU Agreement and the deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution. Other demands of the union as listed by ASUU include Earned Academic Allowances, State Universities, promotion arrears, withheld salaries, and non-remittance of third-party deductions. The circular read, “The leadership of our Branch has been inundated with calls concerning the recent payment of the long-overdue arrears of the consequential adjustment of the minimum wage. “Our members are reminded that this is not one of the core demands upon which the ongoing strike action is premised.