ASUU Strikes will not Work

University lecturers in Nigeria, through the Academic Staff Union of Universities, , have created for themselves an image of group whose sole interest is strikes. ASUU has started another strike, which it says would be “total and comprehensive
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National President of ASUU Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie blames the federal government’s refusal to implement core components of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement for the latest strike.
The issues go beyond non-payment of entitlements of ASUU members. Last year when state universities went on series of strikes in the South East, Awuzie spoke of dismal staffing, extremely poor teaching facilities, irregular power supply, and under-funding of the universities. These are national occurrences.
The federal government neglected, ignored, failed and refused to implement the core components of the 2009 FGN/ASUU Agreement after more than two years of its signing, sacked the Implementation Monitoring Committee that served as the forum for dialogue with ASUU on this dispute,” ASUU said in justifying the strike. “The government is terribly insincere and is manifestly unwilling to genuinely implement the agreement it freely entered into with ASUU