ASUU calls-off strike, urges lecturers to return to classrooms

Lecturers of Nigerian universities have been urged to return to their classrooms after the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday confirmed that it had ended its one week nationwide warning strike.

In a statement delivered in Abuja, President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi said the union has called off the strike over the non-implementation of its 2009 agreement with the Federal Government.

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“We are making progress especially with the intervention of the Senate and in the next one or two meetings, if we are able to get a clear path to the matter, we will avoid the elongation of the strike.

“I have been receiving these reports that ASUU says strike continues, no, the strike ends today (Tuesday). All lecturers are to go back to work on Wednesday morning.” He added.

The Union had embarked on the one week warning strike, complaining that chronic under-funding of the sector through low budgetary allocation, which went from 11 per cent in 2015 to eight per cent in 2016.

The union also lamented that “With the introduction of TSA, the federal universities find it extremely difficult to discharge their core responsibilities of teaching, research and community services”.

 

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