ASUU Reveals when the ongoing strike will be Call off

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, says the union may call off industrial action within days.

PUNCH NG reports that ASUU embarked on the strike on 14 February 2022 to seek improvement in the academic environment and well-being of members, funding to revive public universities, deserved academic allowances, a solution to the problem of the Universities Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) and the backlog of promotions.

The ASU president, in a meeting with the leadership of the House of Representatives in Abuja on Monday, said the strike would end soon.

Osodeke commended President Muhammadu Buhari and declared that the union's strike should not be prolonged.

"We will call off this strike in a few days," he declared. So that every Nigerian may be proud that we have universities to be proud of, let's finish this thing off beautifully by working together and with the members of the House of Representatives.

"We also thank the President for becoming involved in the ASUU strike. And I want to make a plea that going forward, we shouldn't let the strike drag on. Strikes shouldn't last longer than two days; if the National Assembly hadn't intervened the way it did, if we had gone on strike sooner, or if those in charge of labor and education had acted exactly as they did, we wouldn't have gone more than two or three weeks.

"The United States and the United Kingdom also do go on strike, but they are prevented from lasting longer. Again, thank you very much. We hope that working together, we can put an end to this particular controversy in the Nigerian educational system in the coming days.