Following a series of heated discussions, the Academic Staff Union of Universities has decided to extend its ongoing strike.
The decision was taken after the National Executive Council meeting at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja on Monday morning.
The union’s leadership had called a special National Executive Council meeting to review the strike after most of its branches endorsed an indefinite boycott of lectures at their congresses last week.
The congresses reached the agreement on an indefinite strike following the government’s insistence on a “no-work, no-pay” policy.
Apart from seeking payment of the salaries of its members for the strike period, ASUU is demanding the provision of funds for the revitalisation of public universities; payment of Earned Academic Allowances (EAA)/Earned Allowances (EA); payment of salary shortfalls; an end to the proliferation of state universities, renegotiation of a 2009 agreement; adoption of University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) as a payment platform for university teachers and payment of non-remitted check-off dues.