The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has threatened to embark on indefinite strike over the failure of the federal government to honour the 2009 agreement reached with it.
Bauchi Zonal Coordinator of the union, Professor Timothy Namo, said this during a news conference yesterday in Jos.
Namo said the union after its National Executive Council, NEC, held between August 17 and 18, issued a 21-day ultimatum.
“As we speak, government has not honour any of the agreements or addressed our concerns.
“At the expiration of the 21-day ultimatum, we again issued another 14-day ultimatum that commenced from September 23.
” So, we want Nigerians to blame the federal government if ASUU decides to down tools and shut down public universities,” he said.
Namo highlighted the lingering issues, nonconclusion of the re-negotiation of the 2009 agreement, non-release of the three-and-half month salaries of academic staff, unpaid salaries of all academic staff on adjunct appointment, and outstanding third-party deductions.
Other lingering issues he said were poor funding for the revitalisation of public universities, non-payment of Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) as captured in the 2023 budget, proliferation of universities, and nonimplementation of the reports of visitation panels to universities, among others.
