Academic Staff Union of Universities has issued a 21-day notice to the Federal Government to embark on a nationwide strike.
Already, ASUU has informed the Federal Government of its plans to embark on the nationwide strike.
Sources privy to the meeting of the ASUU National Executive Council said the notice was issued at the end of the NEC meeting held at the University of Ibadan.
A copy of the notice is expected to be transmitted to the Federal Ministries of Labour and Education.
The source said, “It is not an ultimatum but a strike notice. We are giving them 21 days’ notice, after which we shall embark on strike.
“Our aim for putting out the notice is that it is a requirement under labour laws so we are trying to ensure that all our actions are done according to the law.”
Recall that ASUU had threatened to embark on strike over the non-implementation of agreements reached with the Federal Government.
On June 26, the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, invited the union to a meeting to deliberate on the lingering issues affecting universities and to avert the planned strike.
Speaking on the outcome of the meeting, ASUU National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said the agreements reached with the Federal Government had not been implemented.
He said, “At the meeting called by the Minister of Education, we agreed that after two weeks, we will meet to see the progress the government has made.
“We will also see what we will do next if the government fail to implement the agreements reached.”
Osodeke said some of the demands included the non-implementation of the 2009 re-negotiated agreements.
The ASUU President said the agreements had lingered for over six years, and the government had yet to implement them.
According to him, academic allowances due to their members have also accumulated for over six years, and nothing has been done about it.
Regarding revitalisation fund, he said they agreed on the Needs Assessment Report to raise N200billion yearly for five years.
“Since 2013, only one has been paid. We need revitalisation funds to upgrade our universities to standard so that we can have students and lecturers from outside the country,” he said.
The ASUU President added that the government had yet to stop the proliferation of universities, adding that many new universities were being approved without funds to run them.
