Due to unpaid salaries, varsity employees threaten to go on strike again.
On the margins of the union's current National Executive Council meeting in Abuja, Prince Peters Adeyemi, the general secretary of NASU, hinted that the members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Other Associated Institutions would likely resumetheir suspended strike in protest of the Federal Government's refusal to pay their withheld salaries.In October 2023, President Tinubu ordered that members of NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities receive two of the four months' salaries that the federal government, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, withheld in 2022 after a protracted strike over unresolved disputes.Adeyemi told reporters that the directive, which was issued two months ago, has not been followed.What is new is that the President’s directive has been disobeyed. We used to know that the president’s words can...
