The non-academic workers at Nigerian universities will commence an indefinite strike on February 5, 2021.
Prior to now, the unions had made series of attempts to draw attention to the government over growing industrial tension in the university system to no avail.
The two unions had last week embarked on a three-day protest over the alleged government failure to honour the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, signed with them on 20th October 2020.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, JAC of the unions led by the National President of SSANU, Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, and General Secretary NASU, Prince Peters Adeyemi, said out of the seven issues under contention, only one was partially resolved.
The Joint Action Committee of NASU and SSANU made this known in a communique on Friday.
In the prepared text read by the NASU General Secretary, Prince Adeyemi, JAC said: “Out of the seven issues, only one has been partially resolved while the other six issues have not been attended to by the government, three months after the Memorandum of Understanding was signed.”
Part of the communique read, “It is in line with the resolution of our members nationwide, that the leadership of the Joint Action Committee of NASU and SSANU hereby resolve as follows:
“That members of NASU and SSANU shall embark on an indefinite, comprehensive and total strike with effect from midnight of Friday, 5th February 2021.
“That two weeks’ notice effective from today, Friday 22nd January 2021, is hereby given to Government and relevant stakeholders of this development.”
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