ASUU Strike: Public Varsities in Crisis as Asuu Commences Nationwide Strike

The Academic Staff Union of universities (ASUU) has commenced it’s warning strike today 9th of March 2020. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has embarked on a two- week warning strike with effect from Monday.

The National President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, announced this at end of the National Executive Council meeting(NEC) that was held recently at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) .

Professor Biodun Ogunyemi said the strike action was to compel federal government to implement the agreements and resolutions of Memorandum of Action discussed in the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and the 2017 Memorandum of Action (MoU), all of which have not been implemented.

It was earlier mentioned few months ago that ASUU rejected IPPIS on point of law, principle and rule of law but has offered an alternative platform which has been named University Transparency and Accountability Solutions which would take care of university peculiarities.