ASUU Strike: NLC Threatens FG with One-day Strike
By Ozumi Abdul
The Nigeria Labour Congress has threatened to go on a one-day national protest to force the Federal Government to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that has been on protracted strike for months.
The labour union noted that reports from a meeting of its Central Working Committee indicated total lack of progress in the negotiation with the leadership of the ASUU, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and National Association of Academic Technologists.
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Speaking in Abuja during the opening of the National Executive Council meeting of the Congress, the NLC president Comrade Ayuba Wabba directed all the affiliate unions of the NLC to issue directives about the planned one-day national protest from next week.
“I think there is reluctance in addressing this issue (of strike) and therefore, CWC has decided that there will be a one-day national protest to call the attention of the government to resolve the issue immediately. After that, the next decision of the CWC will take place,” he said.
However the union supremo did not disclose when the planned national protest will hold.
Wabba also lamented the present fuel crisis in the country, while also promising that the congress is not resting on its oars in studying the sack of teachers by the Kaduna State Government.
Governor Nasir El Rufai-led Kaduna state government recently sacked 2,357 teachers for failing a competency test conducted by the state.
