Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended the months-long ongoing strike by three months.
Gatekeepers News reports that the President of the union on Monday, said the industrial action has been extended by 12 weeks.
Prof. Osodeke made this known in a statement he issued after the union’s meeting held at the University of Abuja.
The ASUU president stated that the decision was to give the government enough time to resolve all outstanding issues with the lecturers.
His statement read, “After extensive deliberations, noting the Government’s failure to live up to its responsibilities and speedily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA) within the additional eight-week roll–over strike period declared on 14th March 2022, NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for twelve weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.
“The roll-over strike action is with effect from 12.01 a.m. on Monday, 9th May 2022.”
