Why We Would Not End Strike Now -ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, vowed to continue with its indefinite nationwide strike for as long as it took the Federal Government to implement the 2009 agreement reached with the union.

This came as Education Rights Campaign, ERC, staged a peaceful protest at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, calling for total support for the striking lecturers in a bid to salvage the nation's university education.

Coordinator, Ibadan zone, ASUU, Dr. Adesola Nassir, at a briefing in UNILAG, claimed government was not sincere in meeting ASUU's demands.

He said: "Government has chosen to go the old odious track of trading words, blackmailing and outright peddling of lies in this matter."The government through the National University Commission, NUC, through the Executive Secretary Prof. Julius Okojie, has once again shown its disdain for seriousness by pretending that it does not know that ASUU is on strike, publishing certain figures on academic staff salaries and funds released to universities and also conducting a sham programme accreditation at the University of Abuja."

Meanwhile, ERC staged a peaceful protest at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, in support of the striking lecturers in a bid to salvage the nation's university education.

Addressing the protesters, ERC Lagos State coordinator, Mr. Lateef Adam, claimed that about one third of the nation's revenue was spent on the  salaries and allowances of political office holders, to the detriment of the nation's education.He urged Nigerians, students, progressives and media to help save the system from total collapse.