ASUU Strike Looms As Tinubu’s Govt Accused of Nonchalant Attitude Towards Education

ASUU has issued President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a two-week ultimatum to reinstate the dissolved governing councils of Nigerian universities Legit.ng reports that since President Tinubu dissolved the councils last June, the universities have operated without governing councils The dissolution affected all public institutions, including polytechnics and colleges of education

FCT, Abuja – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday, May 14, threatened a nationwide strike. As reported by The Punch, the union criticised the failure of the federal government of Nigeria to appoint governing councils for federal universities.

Nigerian students could be forced to stay at home again as ASUU threatens to go on strike. Photo credits: @Flexyeffiong, @KAFTAN_TV Source: Twitter

Federal universities have been running without governing councils for the past eleven months and that has seemed to cause crises in some institutions. ASUU faulted what it described as the alleged nonchalant attitude of the Tinubu-led administration to matters about academics in the nation’s federal universities. ASUU president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, said: “No university in the whole world can be allowed to run for a whole year without governing councils that are saddled with the responsibility of managing the funds of such University.”

Furthermore, the body of academics, during the press briefing at the ASUU’s national secretariat in the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), faulted the 35 percent salary increment for professors and the 25 per cent salary addition for other academics in the university system.