The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has threatened to embark on a fresh nationwide strike.
ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke disclosed this during a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.
The union said the move to go on strike is to protest against the failure of the Nigerian government to appoint Governing Councils for Federal Universities.
Osodeke lamented the absence of governing councils in all federal universities in the country among other pending issues.
He noted that President Bola Tinubu’s administration had been given enough time to meet the union’s demands.
According to him, the union at its NEC meet in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife rejected all ongoing illegality and flagrant violation of university autonomy on public universities as a result of non reinstatement/reconstitution of Governing Councils of universities.
DAILY GIST recalls that the governing councils of the public universities were dissolved by the federal government in May 2023.
ASUU also lamented the 35 per cent salary increment for professors and the 25 per cent salary increment for other university academics, describing it as a wage award that could be suspended by the government at any time.
