ASUU Strike: Students to continue protests in Osun, Kwara, Edo, others
Following the extension of the strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities by another 12 weeks, student groups have decided to continue their protests across the country.
Students under the aegis of Fund Education Coalition have declared a protest action to hold at the gate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State on Thursday, May 12.
The Students' Union of the University of Ilorin had also in a flier, called on Nigerian students in Ilorin to join in a protest which would commence at the university's gate on Tuesday.
Similarly, the National Association of University Students, Oyo State Campus Monitoring Committee, in a statement issued late Monday, signed by its Chairman, Comrade Shittu Ridwan Adeniyi, declared a mass protest to hold at the Office of the Wife of the Governor of Oyo State on Wednesday.
Sources also noted that the protest would hold in Edo State.
This came after a mass of students of the University of Lagos alongside other students and concerned youths had already trooped out en masse on Monday to protest the lingering strike action of the lecturers, calling on the Federal Government to immediately see to the demands of the lecturers and ultimately see to the reopening of schools.
The OAU Students' Union was also on a media rally cum protest in Lagos on Monday.
On Monday, ASUU, after its National Executive Council meeting which started on Sunday night at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja, declared an extension of its strike by 12 weeks.
A statement signed by the ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said this was to give the government enough time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.
It also stated that the roll-over strike was effective from 12.01 am May 9, 2021.
According to ASUU, the strike action came on the heels of the government's failure to satisfactorily implement the Memorandum of Action it signed with the Union in December 2020 on the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement, deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), Earned Academic Allowances (EAA), funding for revitalization of public universities (both Federal and States), proliferation and governance issues in State Universities, promotion arrears, withheld salaries (owed for over 20 months in some cases), and Non-emittance of third-party deductions.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Abdulazeez Uthman Isiaka Danmeromu Wahab Agbaje Olokoba Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman Iyaloja-General Moses Rahman Popoola Abdulrasheed Akogun ANCOPPS KwaraLearn 2017 Budget Code Of Conduct Tribunal Ladi Hassan Kwabes Kwara-SAPZ Project Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd Abdulmajeed Wahab Omotoso Musa Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla Baba Issa Umar Ahmed Gunu Stephen Fasakin Musa Yeketi Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim Ibrahim Bio Fatimoh Lawal Mogaji Aare Saidu Kawu Yekini Adio ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited Abatemi Usman Abdulfatai Ahmed Oba-Solagberu Modibo Kawu Elese Of Igbaja Sunset Workers Ballah Zubair Folorunsho Erubu Bola Sagaya Kayode Yusuf Bello Abubakar UTME Usman Yunusa ITP Kwara State University Of Education Amuda Musbau Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development Special Agro-Industrial Hub Sabitiyu Grillo Abdulrazaq Adebayo Oko Kwara 2019 Gbenga Adebayo Simeon Sayomi Tunji Moronfoye Yahaya A Paniyaro Nagode Bello John Olanrewaju Tsaragi/Share Ishola Balogun Fulani Yakubu Shaaba Saliu Tunde Bello Tayo Awodiji Umar Gunu Mutawalle Abubakar Atiku Ohoro Of Shao Democracy Day Alfa Modibbo Belgore Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku Toyin Sanusi Ishaq Salman Marufat Oladosu Bello Bature Olateju Lukman Yahya Mohammed Oke-Kura

