Members of the senior staff association of Nigerian universities, SSANU and the non-academic staff union of educational and associated institutions, NASU have commenced an indefinite nationwide strike within campuses of public universities, to demand the immediate release of their four months’ withheld salaries.
Recall that the unions had on September 17 handed the Federal government a three-week ultimatum to pay the outstanding withheld salaries of their members or risk an industrial action.
Kick-starting the action today, the two unions directed their members in all public universities and inter-university centres throughout the country to hold a joint congress in their respective campuses today and proceed on an indefinite, comprehensive and total strike action as no concession should be given in any guise.
Reports have it that the two unions had staged several protests and warning strikes to protest their four months’ withheld salaries by the federal government, which during the action nothing moved administratively within any public university in Nigeria, as hostels and varsity gates were locked up and electricity supply was cut off by disgruntled non-academic staff.