ASUU Strike: President Promises To Cover Lost Ground

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday promised to cover the academic period lost to its strike.

The National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos.

NAN reports that lecturers in public universities, under the aegis of ASUU, embarked on what they described as total, comprehensive and indefinite nationwide strike on Aug. 13.

The lecturers protested non implementation of the 2009 agreement and the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding it entered into with the Federal Government.

The union suspended the strike conditionally on Sept. 18 after dialogues with a Federal Government delegation headed by the Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige.

“We wish to assure our students and parents that they do not have any cause to worry over the lost period while the strike lasted.

“As we have always said, it is not our intention to be disrupting academic activities in our institutions.

“What we are pressing for is for us to have a better system for the benefit of our students and, of course, the nation at large.

“We cannot continue with what we may call business as usual in the running of university system in our country,’’ he said.