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SSANU, NASU mobilise members for ‘massive protest’ today

Aminu Imam
SSANU, NASU mobilise

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) have announced a one-day protest scheduled for today Thursday, citing the Federal Government’s continued failure to address their longstanding demands. Operating under the Joint Action Committee (JAC), both unions have instructed their branches to hold emergency meetings on Wednesday to prepare and mobilise members for the protest. Planned activities include campus marches, placard demonstrations, and press briefings. The unions said the decision comes after a thorough assessment of the government’s inaction…

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SSANU, NASU to begin indefinite strike today

Aminu Imam
SSANU, NASU

The Joint Action Committee of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational (NASU) and Associated Institutions and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, (SSANU), will commence an indefinite strike on Sunday night. According to an issued statement yesterday, signed by the National President of SSANU, Mohammed Ibrahim, NASU’s General Secretary, Prince Peters Adeyemi, said the ultimatum it gave the Federal Government over its withheld salaries would expire on Sunday midnight. The unions are demanding, among others, the payment of the four-month withheld salaries, improved remuneration, earned allowances and implementation of the…

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FG, ASUUset to meet,as workersprotest today, Tuesday

Aminu Imam
NASU SSANU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has said it will be meeting with the Federal Government on July 25, 2024 over its unmet demands. This was as non-academic staff of universities declared on Sunday that they were set for a one-day protest today, (Tuesday), on campuses over their withheld four-month salaries. The one-day protest would be a prelude to a nationwide protest planned for July 18. ASUU National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, who disclosed this in a phone interview with our correspondent at the weekend. said July 25 was…

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Total grounding of universities looms as SSANU, NASU give FG ultimatum

Aminu Imam

The total grounding of Nigerian universities seems imminent, as their non-academic staff have threatened to embark on a 2week initial industrial action should the Federal Government fail to meet their demands by March, 27. Recall that the teaching staff, under the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), are already in the second of their three-month initial strike. ASUU had also started its strike with an initial four weeks on February 14, and extended it by two months when meetings with the government yielded no positive results. In a letter addressed…

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New minimum wage adjustments:Varsity workers threaten another strike action

Aminu Imam

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has threatened another strike across universities. The unions President, Mohammed Ibrahim, who revealed this in an interview with journalists in Abuja over the weekend, claimed the Federal Government had yet to commence payment of the consequential adjustments for the new national minimum wage and the allowances encapsulated in the earned allowance.  According to Ibrahim, SSANU members are agitated over the delay in implementing the agreement, stressing that the union officials were under pressure to return to the trenches. As you are aware, our…

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NASU, SSANU agree to suspend nationwide strike

Aminu Imam

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of non-teaching staff unions of universities, which comprises Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of the Universities (NASU), has announced the suspension of its nationwide strike. The unions said the end of their 3-week old nationwide strike would take effect from midnight of February 26. This was disclosed by NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi, in a briefing with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, after a meeting was held with the Federal Government. We have eight items which we negotiated and…

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SSANU, NASU planned strike illegal Minister

Aminu Imam

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said that it is illegal for university workers to embark on their planned strike. Ngige disclosed this while addressing State House journalists after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday. The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) as well as the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), had given notice of an indefinite strike, to start midnight of February 5, if the government failed to address about seven points demand…

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Federal Varsity Lafia union joins nationwide strike

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Federal University of Lafia chapter, has joined the nationwide strike as directed by its national headquarters. Mr Monday Sarki, the chapter Chairman of SSANU told journalists on Friday in Lafia, that the strike was called over the failure of government to fulfill the agreement it reached with the union on their welfare issues. Sarki said the university chapter of the union had to comply with the directive by the national body, after expiration of its ultimatum to the Federal Government. In view of the…

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IPPIS: University workers to commence three-day protests tomorrow

Aminu Imam

University workers, under the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), are to commence a three-day protest from tomorrow, Tuesday, over the Federal Government failure to implement the several agreements reached in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in October last year. Rising from a meeting held in Abuja at the weekend, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of NASU and SSANU, directed their branches in all universities across the country to embark on a three-day protest. In a circular…

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