Again, ASUU dashes hope of universities resuming, extends strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has again dashed hopes that universities in the country would soon resume, after the union decided on an extension of its over six months old strike action.

It was gathered that the union took this decision at the end of its National Executive Council meeting held in Abuja on Sunday, but extending into the early hours of Monday.

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ASUU had declared the commencement of a strike on Monday, February 14, 2022.

The union is demanding a renegotiation of agreements reached between it and the government in 2009.

It is also demanding that government should shelve the payment of members’ salaries using its Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) through which it pays its employees while adopting the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).

Several meetings between government representatives and ASUU have ended in deadlock. One such was held about two weeks ago with the Professor Nimi Briggs Committee at the National University Commission (NUC) in Abuja.

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