Students of federal and state universities are to sit down at home for further two months, as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its warning strike by eight weeks as a way of giving the Federal Government time to meet its demands.
Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, president of ASUU, disclosed this in a statement on Monday at the end of the National Executive Council meeting of the union held at its National Secretariat, University of Abuja.
He said, “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 (MoA) within the four-week roll-over strike period and resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight (8) weeks to give Government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that our students will resume as soon as possible.”
He added that “The roll-over strike shall commence by 12.01 am on Monday, 14th March 2022.”
The union had in February declared a warning strike following the failure of the Federal Government to deploy the University Transparency and Accountability Solution and other demands.
