Strike Continues Until Nigerian Government Fulfills Our Demands – ASUU

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), stated that its members across the country are still on industrial action and therefore the Federal Government’s directive to the Vice-Chancellors to reopen universities is meaningless to the union.

Federal government had earlier in a letter issued through the National Universities Commission (NUC), addressed to Vice Chancellors, Pro-Chancellors and Chairman governing boards directed immediate re-opening of Universities for students to return to classroom.
The government in the letter mandated that the Vice Chancellors must “ensure that ASUU members immediately resume/commence lectures; Restore the daily activities and routines of the various University campuses.”
But the ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview, said they (ASUU members) were not bothered about the directive.
Osodeke said, as far as ASUU and its members across the country were concerned, public universities in the country had not been closed down by anybody including ASUU, and it is only that ASUU members are staying away from classrooms to press home their demands from the Federal Government.
“So, we are not bothered about whether Federal Government directed VCs to reopen schools or not. So, we are still on strike and so we shall remain until the Federal Government do what is right and good for the public universities in the country,” Osodeke stressed.