Students of government-owned universities in Nigeria may have to stay at home much longer even if the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, decides to call off its strike.
This is because the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions has given the Federal Government fourteen days to meet their demands or its members would go on strike.
In its fourteen-day strike notice to the government, NASU President, MAKOLO HASSAN, said the decision was taken at a meeting of the National Executive Council of the association.
HASSAN said the government had failed to keep an agreement it reached with the Joint Research and Allied Institutions Sector Unions since 2010.
He said the pending issues include the payment of twelve months’ arrears of fifty-three point three-seven percent increase in salary, as well as peculiar and earned allowances.
The union leader said NASU is also yet to get approval for the retirement age of sixty-five years for Non-Research staff as obtainable in the universities.
He also said that the government had not kept its promise of easy transfer of the payment of the salary of their members to the Integrate Personnel Payroll in Information System of the government.