The National Executive Council meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities will be held today at the University of Abuja, the country’s capital. The meeting will be deciding on the academic strike, to know if the strike action will be continued or not as university lecturers stopped work in February 2022.
The six months Industrial action had begun because of disagreements with the Federal Government on the welfare of university lecturers and the upgrade of Nigerian universities. This meeting will be a crucial one as millions of Nigerian students, who are nervous about losing a whole academic year on account of the strike will be tuned in to hear the outcome.
All ASUU State branches held their congresses on Tuesday and Wednesday across the affected universities in Nigeria because of today’s meeting. The congress’s resolution will be discussed at today’s meeting.
State Universities like Delta State University, Abraka, Ekiti State University, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, and Ogbomosho had pulled out from the strike. Meanwhile, the Lagos State University had not joined the strike at all. It should be noted that only two universities out of the many affected universities had voted for the strike to be called off.
The other varsities had been in support of the indefinite strike until their needs had been met.
This is not the first meeting that ASUU will be holding on the grounds of the current strike action, the FG and ASUU had met a lot of times to call off the strike, but an agreement is yet to be reached. Even as the Nigeria Labour Congress -NLC banded together with ASUU to protest in Abuja and across the country for the ASUU strike to be called off.
