Nigerian Academic Staff Extends Strike By 12 Weeks

Prof Emmanuel Osodeke says the Academic Staff Union of Universities has extended the ongoing strike by twelve weeks. <br />The president of the union, says the decision was to give the government enough time to resolve all outstanding issues with the lecturers. <br />He says 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 within the additional eight-week roll–over strike period declared on 14th March 2022. <br />He added that the NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for twelve weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.