The subsisting industrial peace in Nigerian public universities is set to be shattered once again as the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU)are set to commence a nationwide strike today due to withheld salary arrears of their members.
The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of NASU and SSANU had, on June 20, 2024, sent a letter to minister of education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, informing him that their members would begin a work boycott in two weeks if their demands were not met.
In a letter jointly signed by NASU General Secretary Prince Peter Adeyemi and Mohammed Ibrahim, the unions accused the government of neglect and insincerity.
They lamented that despite the promises made by the ministers of education and labour and employment to pay the arrears, the federal government had continued to “dribble us, even after the mutual agreement to suspend the one-week warning strike in March this year.”
This is just as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is mobilising all its branches nationwide for a strike despite high-level discussions with the minister of education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, about one week earlier.
