ASUU President
BY TAIWO FAROTIMI
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has asked its members to proceed on an industrial action beginning from Monday November 5.
The directive issued at the end of a meeting held on Sunday at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA is to protest poor funding of Universities in Nigeria. Professor Abiodun Ogunyemi, national president of the union was quoted as saying that the strike will be indefinite.
This is coming two days after the federal government succeeded in obtaining an injunction restraining organised labour from proceeding on an advertised action scheduled to commence on Tuesday November 6. The strike declared by the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC,leading other Labour unions, is to protest the suspected insincerity of government on the new minimum wage.
Now, whether or not the NLC action is given any effect, public universities will be under lock and key yet again from Monday. That may also imply that majority of the students will have to be confronted with the high cost of transportation on their way home.
