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ASUU- Union May Go On Full Blown Strike As Warning Strike Ends Today


As the the eight-week warning strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, ends today, there is a likelihood that the union may go on full blown strike action, an indefinite industrial action.

The National leadership of the union is poise to inform the public of its decision today.

The union had earlier gone on a month warning strike on February 14 this year, and extended it by another eight weeks, which comes to an end today.

The National Executive Committee, NEC, of the union had before given the go ahead to the national leadership to call out members on indefinite strike, if nothing definite was attained during the eight weeks of their warning strike.

While ASUU was into the second round of its warning strike, other staff unions in the university system also embarked on strike.

The unions are Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU; National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Education and Allied Institutions, NASU.

Though the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, had met with the leadership of SSANU, NAAT and NASU, noting concrete came out of the meetings.

He is yet to meet with ASUU leadership, though he announced last weekend that he would meet with them.


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