The unions said that there had been allegations of gross misconduct, high handedness, corruption and abuse of office against the Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Adegoke Adegbite
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The Joint Action Committee of the unions announced the suspension in a communiqué
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, had called for a reconciliatory meeting with the Joint Action Committee of the unions
CSNAC, which is a coalition of over 150 anti-corruption groups, had in letter dated November 15, 2016 and signed by its Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, urged the commission to protect the three whistleblowers who were sacked from the institution after spearheading a petition to the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, against the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Olusola Oyewole
Ngige stated this in a statement he personally signed on Monday
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the unions are the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union and National Association of Academic Technologists
The Joint Action Committee of the unions in a statement stated that the warning strike became necessary in order for government to fully implement the 2009 FGN/Non-Teaching Staff Unions Agreements it freely entered into with the unions
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Director of Press of the Federal Ministry of Education, Ihuoma Chinenye, on Friday in Abuja
The crisis rocking the university took a new dimension when members of the union from the Western Zone barricaded all access roads into the university, protesting against the sack of 23 of their members
Rising from an emergency congress held at the university campus, SSANU called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently remove the Vice Chancellor and dissolve the institution’s Governing Council
The National President of the association, Samson Ugwoke, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos of the developments on telephone on Friday
The offices of the dons were under lock and key as all the lecturers stayed away from work
The lecture, held at the Lagos State University, Ojo, was entitled: “Needs Assessment and Contemporary Issues in Nigerian Public Universities
He said that the strike was sequel to a letter written to the Vice-Chancellors of the affected federal universities and Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation
The various unions in the universities, consisting of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, the Non Academic Staff of Universities and the National Association of Academic Technologists, are planning to embark on a nationwide indefinite strike to force the Federal Government to rescind the planned retrenchment of non teaching staff in federal universities