ASUU issues four-day ultimatum to FG over new lecturer salaries

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned the Federal Government to statesman paying lecturers nether the recently approved wage operation without hold oregon hazard a nationwide strike.

The national issued a four-day deadline connected Thursday. ASUU President Christopher Piwuna said that if nary enactment is taken wrong that period, the national volition instrumentality superior measures that could unopen down nationalist universities crossed the country.

Speaking astatine Sa’adu Zungur University successful Bauchi State, Piwuna stated that the authorities indispensable commence outgo of the caller salaries immediately.

“We person issued a four-day ultimatum from contiguous to the national authorities to statesman the outgo of the recently approved wage structure. Failure to comply volition pull a beardown effect from the union,” helium said.

He emphasised that the national expects punctual action, informing that non-compliance volition provoke a decisive response.

This informing comes a fewer months aft ASUU and the national authorities reached a caller statement successful January.

The woody was intended to resoluteness long-standing issues and extremity the repeated strikes that person affected Nigeria’s assemblage strategy for years.

A cardinal constituent of the statement is simply a caller wage operation designed to amended lecturers’ welf...