Lagos varsity workers declare indefinite strike over unpaid nine-month arrears

Academic and non-academic workers successful Lagos State-owned universities person threatened to commence an indefinite onslaught from October 3 implicit the alleged nonaccomplishment of the authorities authorities to instrumentality agreements reached with the unions.

The Joint Action Committee, JAC, of Lagos State-owned universities issued the informing during a media briefing connected Friday, saying its members would retreat their services if their demands were not addressed.

The committee comprises the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT.

The affected institutions are Lagos State University, LASU, Lagos State University College of Medicine, LASUCOM, Lagos State University of Science and Technology, LASUSTECH, and Lagos State University of Education, LASUED.

JAC Chairman, Prof. Ibrahim Bakare, said the onslaught would commence astatine midnight connected Saturday, October 3, pursuing the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued to the Lagos State Government.

Bakare said the determination followed months of unsuccessful negotiations, administrative delays and what the unions described arsenic repeated reversals by authorities officials implicit the implementation of the signed 20...