Nationwide Strike: If Your Undergraduate Child’s Not Back Home…

Nationwide Strike: If you have an undergraduate in a federal university particularly, and they are not back home as at yet, then you should ask questions.

This is because most of them have been asked to vacate the campus, sequel to the shut-down of federal universities across the country.

The shutdown, supervised by Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions, (NASU), follows an indefinite nationwide strike which the unions have just begun.

They are angered by the alleged failure of the government to pay them four months of salaries withheld during the 2022 strike by university workers.

A statement co-signed by SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim and NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi, the two unions said they had no option that to commence the indefinite strike after several attempts to resolve contending issues failed.

it is appalling that despite several ultimatums issued to government, no positive result has come in.

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They said they had advised their members to proceed on the indefinite strike after holding joint congress in their respective campuses on Monday, October 28, 2024.

They stated that the nationwide strike would be total and comprehensive.