The Academic Staff Union of Universities extended the ongoing strike by eight weeks after the Federal Government failed to meet their demands.
Emmanuel Osodeke, the President of the union, made this known in a statement made available to The newsmen on Monday, March 14.
According to him, the National Executive Council during the meeting which was held at the University of Abuja, “UNIABUJA” on Sunday March 13, it was concluded that they would give the FG eight weeks to address all the issues “in concrete terms” so that students would resume.
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The statement read in part, “NEC acknowledged the intervention efforts, in various ways, by patriots and friends of genuine national development (students, parents, journalists, trade union leaders, civil society activists etc.) to expeditiously resolve the crisis which•Govemment’s disposition had allowed to fester.
“However, ASUU, as a union of intellectuals, has historic obligations to make governments honour agreements.
“NEC, having taken reports on the engagements of the Trustees and Principal Officers with the Government, concluded that Government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the four-week roll-over strike period and resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight weeks to give Government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that our students will resume as soon as possible.
“The roll-over strike shall commence by 12.Olam on Monday, 14th March 2022.”
