ASUU Extends Strike By Four Weeks

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced extention of its ongoing strike action.

 According to TheNation, ASUU announce it has extended its strike by another four weeks to give the Federal Government more time to meet its demands.

 The union took the decision at the end of its National Executive Council meeting at its national secretariat in Abuja on Sunday. In a statement by its President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, the union said:

 “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of Government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MOA), NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for four weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.

 “The role-over strike action is with effect from 12.01a.m. on Monday, 1st August, 2022.”