ASUU BEGINS TWO -WEEKS WARNING STRIKE
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Nigerianparrot at Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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Academic activities in Nigerian universities were yesterday grounded as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) began a two-week warning strike to protest the failure of the Federal Government to sign and implement the agreement reached between it and ASUU.
ASUU president,Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie,who made this public yesterday while addressing newsmen in Yola,the Adamawa state capital,at the end of the Union's three-day national executive council meeting,said the Federal Government had pushed ASUU into an unavoidable strike situation,having persevered for two long years of "painstaking and scientific negotiation and six months wait for the government to sign and implement the agreement.
The negotiating teams, he continued, agreed that if Nigeria is to get where it ought to be "a minimum of 26 per cent of the annual budget of the state and Federal government ought to be allocated to education"stressing that with the level of funding,we can halt the growing inability of the children of the underprivileged to get an education.