The Joint Action Committee of the Non Academic Staff Union and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities of the institution gave the ultimatum in a notice of strike they addressed to the Vice Chancellor.
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The workers under the aegis of Joint Action Committee comprising Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior Staff Union of Universities (SSANU) of the University of Nigeria, Nsuka (UNN) walked around some major roads in UNN campus singing solidarity songs with placards.
The unions include the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), and the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) chapters.
The union’s President, Dr. Makolo Hassan, in a statement following its National Executive Council meeting on Thursday, said the union was warming up for a total shut down.
Though the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, is being ferociously attacked by the leadership of ASUU over his insistence on the full implementation of the IPPIS across the board, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, where IPPIS is domiciled, is also responsible for all receipts into and payments from the Federation and Consolidated Accounts.
The Joint Action Committee of the unions at a press conference held at the ivory tower also denied that they assumed the responsibility of appointing a vice chancellor for the university.
The committee will examine the complaints with a view to harmonising its activities and operations.
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions says it will begin a 14-day warning strike in Federal Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education over shortfall in payment of its members’ salaries.
The Non-Academic Staff Union, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, has given reasons for preventing movement into the institution’s premises in the early hours of Wednesday.
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions members working in Nigeria offices of West Africans Examination Council will withdraw their services as from October 14.
The Ahmadu Bello University branch of the two unions made their stand known while addressing a joint press briefing at SSANU secretariat, main campus, Samaru, Zaria, Kaduna State.
The warning strike by non-academic staff of universities on Tuesday gained more ground at the Lagos State University as the workers fully complied with the strike directive.
The Non-Academic Staff Union and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities chapter of the Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, has joined the ongoing nationwide strike.
Striking members of the non-teaching staff of Nigerian universities on Tuesday blocked entrance to the Federal University of Technology Owerri to enforce compliance with the nationwide strike.
The University of Ilorin Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities on Monday joined the five days warning strike.
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday held a joint protest in Ibadan to demand the implementation of a subsisting court judgement and other pressing issues.
The staff, under the aegis of Non Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, said the strike, which began at 12 midnight on Friday, was total.
Two unions at the Nigerian French Language Village in Badagry, Lagos, on Wednesday protested against non-payment of earned allowance to members of staff of the Inter-University centres.
The Joint Action Congress of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Jos chapter, has embarked on a three-day sit-at-home strike.
This followed a motion by Senator Barau Jibril on the urgent need to avert the impending strike by SSANU and NASU.