Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) held nationwide protests on public university campuses today.
NASU national president Makolo Hassan had on Monday said there was no going back on Tuesday’s demonstrations as both unions claimed that the Federal Government has failed to address their demands following their warning strike some months back.
At Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna state, non-academic staff members carried placards with various inscriptions as they marched around the campus.
They called on the federal government to release their withheld salaries and fulfill their other outstanding demands.
The protests followed the expiration of a two-week ultimatum handed by NASU and SSANU to the Federal Government in June.
Earlier in March, SSANU and NASU members embarked on a one-week warning strike to protest their eight months’ withheld salaries by the Federal Government.
During the warning strike, nothing moved administratively within any public university in Nigeria as hostels and varsity gates were locked up and electricity supply was cut off by disgruntled non-academic staff.
