SSANU, NASU To Commence Indefinite Strike Tomorrow

• The unions are asking the government to remove their members from the IPPIS payment platform
• They are also asking for a review of the sharing formula of earned allowances between their members and ASUU

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of the Universities and Allied Institutions (NASU) have been directed to embark on a nationwide strike from Friday February 5.

The directive was issued in a statement signed by the leaders of both university staff unions on Thursday.

Representatives of the federal government met with the unions on Tuesday, but the workers said the outcome was “not satisfactory enough to” assure them that government would meet their demands.

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The unions are asking, among other demands, for the government to rectify inconsistencies in the payroll of its members and pay minimum wage arrears.

The strike action, if followed through, could cripple most public universities.

Universities in the country were shut for most of 2020 due to a nine-month strike carried out by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and closures necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Amid a second wave of the pandemic sweeping through the country, the National Universities Commission in January urged universities to re-open and commence academic activities.

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