The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday said it has extended its ongoing indefinite strike.
The university teachers disclosed this after a meeting of its National Executive Council held at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja on Monday.
The union began a one-month warning strike on February 14, 2022, and extended it thrice after the Federal Government failed to meet up with its demands.
Some of the demands of ASUU include: revitalisation of public universities, earned academic allowances and the deployment of the University Transparency and Accountability.
The Federal Government agreed to inject a total of N1.3 trillion into public universities, both state and federal, in six tranches, starting in 2013 after the union decried the deplorable state of the institutions.
In 2013, the government was to release N200 billion and release N220 billion each year for another five years.
After releasing the first tranche, the government stopped releasing the funds. In 2017, it, however, released N20 billion. In 2020, it promised to release N25 billion.
ASUU rejected the offer, insisting on N110 billion, which is 50 percent of the N220 billion that it demanded, but the government declined, citing paucity of funds.
