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.
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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.
The University of Ibadan chapter of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian University on Monday demanded the immediate reinstatement of staff school teachers into the university payroll.
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, University of Lagos chapter has described the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in the institution, Dele Ashiru, as “hypocritical, insensitive and lacking in logical reasoning”.
Chairman of the Association, Khadijat Umar, made the call during the inauguration of its rehabilitated secretariat and launching of 18-seater bus in Gwagwalada on Friday.
Oketunde made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Ile-Ife.
He said that rather than holding on to the erroneous belief on the nation’s education standard, it was the quality of attaining the standard that was falling.
The congress of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Ahmadu Bello University branch, on Friday suspended its purported Acting Chairman, Shu’aibu Ahmed.
Samson Ugwoke, JAC Chairman, said this while briefing newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.
Senator Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this at a resolution reached at a conciliation meeting with the Non-Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities in Abuja.
Samson Ugwoke, Chairman, Joint Action Committee of the Non-Teaching Staff of the Nigerian Universities, said this at a mega protest organised by the unions to express their grievances on Thursday in Abuja.
The Director, Press and Public Relations of the ministry, Priscilla Ihuoma, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Universities Joint Action Committee comprising SSANU, Non Academic Staff Union and National Association of Academic Technicians had embarked on a nationwide strike since December 2017.
Members of Joint Action Committee comprising Non-academic Staff Union of Universities, SSANU and National Association of Academic Technologists have been on strike over Federal Government’s failure to pay their earned allowances.
SSANU, NASU and NAAT had in December called on the Federal Government to release N30 billion to them as a condition to calling off their industrial action.
Ugwoke gave the commendation on Friday in Lagos when he reviewed the effectiveness of the over two month-old industrial action in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
However, the joint unions comprising Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union and National Association of Academic Technicians disrupted the resumption.
The Chairman, SSANU, Lagos State University chapter, Saheed Oseni, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.