By Abiola Olawale
Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), on Sunday, announced that they will not extend their seven-day warning strike.
In a circular to branch chairmen at public universities all over the country, SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, directed SSANU and NASU members to resume work from Monday, March 25, 2024.
The New Diplomat reports that the unions had embarked on a seven-day warning strike on Monday, March 18, 2024, to press home their demands for the payment of their withheld salaries.
The strike saw several universities across the country grounded as most campus gates were under lock and key. Workers in registry, bursary, works and maintenance, security, and students’ affairs withdrew their services, making it difficult for lecturers to perform their services.
However, SSANU and NASU said upon evaluation of the seven-day warning strike, “the tempo of the warning strike has been massive, comprehensive and total in most of our universities and inter-universities centers”.
They saluted the “dedication, resoluteness, and loyalty of members to the cause of the union’s struggle for the payment of four months’ withheld salaries”.
“Consequently, you are hereby informed that the seven-day warning strike shall end at midnight of Sunday, 24th March 2024 and normal work will resume on Monday, 25th March 2024,” the circular partly read.
SSANU and NASU assured members that the struggle for the payment of the withheld salaries is ongoing.
