The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has embarked on a one-month warning strike.
A KAFTANPost source privy to the meeting of the Union that dragged into the early hours of Monday made the revelation.
According to the source, ”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,” he said.
The national president of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, is expected to brief the media on the latest development later today.
The demands of the lecturers’ union have barely changed since the signing of the ASUU/FG 2009 agreement.
These demands include the sustainability of the university autonomy, which the union said the introduction of the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) for the payment of its emoluments violates. The union seeks its replacement with its own University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).
Other demands include the endorsement of the renegotiated 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, which it said was concluded in May, 2021; release of the reports of visitation panels to federal universities and distortions in salary payment challenges.
ASUU also demands to fund for revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowance, improved funding of state universities and promotion arrears.
