Setback for resumption as SSANU, NASU begin indefinite strike (here is date)

 

- A two-week notice has been issued to the FG as SSANU, NASU said they will begin an indefinite strike action 

- The body made this disclosure on Friday, January 22, adding that the strike will begin on February 5 

- Earlier, the bodies had embarked on a three-day warning strike over unpaid allowances, among other grievances 

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have announced an indefinite strike action. 

The two bodies, on Friday, January 22, announced that all their chapters across all universities and inter-university centres will begin to strike on Friday, February 5.

In a statement released to pressmen, the bodies said they are giving a two-week notice and ultimatum to the federal government to entertain their demands beginning from today (Friday, January 22), AIT reports. 

We  recalls that prior to this announcement, NASU and SSANU had earlier agreed to embark on a three-day protest and strike. 

The bodies on Sunday, January 10, announced that the planned industrial action will kick-off from Tuesday, January 12. 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. 

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 

Meanwhile, Comrade Sobur Salami, the national vice president of the SSANU, said the body is not going to put the universities on another lockdown through strike action. 

Salami made this disclosure while speaking on Channels TV's Sunrise Daily  on Tuesday, January 12.

He said unlike the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), SSANU will only embark on a sensitisation protest to call the attention of stakeholders to the plight of the body. Parents advise government over ASUU s