Resumption of universities to be delayed further as
SSANU, NASU fix date for another strike
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It seems that the announcement by the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end its strike
may not mean the resumption of universities in the
country anytime soon.
This is as the Non-Academic Staff Union of
Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU)
and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian
Universities (SSANU) have agreed to embark on a
three-day protest and strike.Both SSANU and NASU on Sunday, January 10,
announced that the planned industrial action will
kick-off from Tuesday, January 12, AIT News
reports.
In a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed
by the heads of the unions, unaddressed issues
like irregularities in the IPPIS payment, the non-
payment of earned allowances, and arrears of
minimum wage, and the delay in the renegotiation
of FGN-NASU and SSANU 2009 agreements were
outlined.Both SSANU and NASU have claimed that the
federal government has failed to keep its part of a
signed agreement
Added to this, SSANU and NASU claimed other
unresolved issues include the non-payment of
retirement benefits of outgone staff members,
arrogation of powers by teachers in the non-
teaching units, the abandonment and poor funding
of state universities by the federal government.
The unions lamented that the government has
failed to keep to its own part of the agreement,
hence their latest decision.
Meanwhile, the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) had said it might resume its
suspended strike in February 2021 if the federal
government fails to fulfill the promises it made to
the lecturers.
The national president of ASUU, Prof Biodun
Ogunyemi, made this known in Lagos shortly after
the union suspended its nine-month-old strike.
ASUU had in March begun a nationwide strike over
the federal government’s insistence that lecturers
must register for the Integrated Personnel and
Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and other key
issues.

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