{"id":51442,"date":"2024-09-29T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/asuu-threatens-strike-after-expiration-of-21-day-ultimatum-to-nigerian-govt\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T16:07:12","slug":"asuu-threatens-strike-after-expiration-of-21-day-ultimatum-to-nigerian-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/asuu-threatens-strike-after-expiration-of-21-day-ultimatum-to-nigerian-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU threatens strike after expiration of 21-day ultimatum to Nigerian Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Academic Staff Union Of Universities, ASUU, has warned that the Federal Government should be held responsible for any industrial unrest in Nigeria\u2019s public universities.<\/p>\n<p>ASUU issued the warning in a statement signed by the union\u2019s Federal University, Dutse, FUD, Chairman, Comrade Dr Salim Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>The union noted that over the past four years, Nigeria\u2019s public universities have been in a state of industrial disharmony, leading to two costly and avoidable strike actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has made several concerted efforts to dialogue with government officials, including the President, with a view to addressing the outstanding issues in the agreement and the various memoranda signed between the Union and the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d Unfortunately, the Tinubu administration, like the Buhari\u2019s, has been unyielding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nonchalant attitude of the administration to our legitimate and reasonable demands compelled the National Executive Council (NEC) of ASUU, following wide consultations, to convene a meeting at the University of Ibadan from 17th to 18th August, 2024, where it exhaustively deliberated on the contending issues and resolved to give a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Government of Nigeria to address them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ultimatum was duly communicated to the government through the Minister of Education via a letter dated 20th August, 2024,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that after the expiration of the 21-day ultimatum, the Federal Government has not demonstrated any genuine commitment to address the issues in contention.<\/p>\n<p>ASUU said failure of the Federal Government to meet the monetary and non-monetary demands of the union is brewing industrial disharmony in Nigeria\u2019s public universities.<\/p>\n<p>ASUU threatens strike after expiration of 21-day ultimatum to Nigerian Govt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academic Staff Union Of Universities, ASUU, has warned that the Federal Government should be held responsible for any industrial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5504,15,6790,761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asuu","category-news","category-nigerian-govt","category-top-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}