The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike over the failure of the federal government to honour the 2009 agreement reached with it.
Timothy Namo, the Bauchi zonal coordinator of the union, said this during a news conference on Friday in Jos.
Mr Namo said the union, after its National Executive Council (NEC), held between August 17 and August 18, issued a 21-day ultimatum.
”As we speak, the government has not honoured any of the agreements or addressed our concerns.
”At the expiration of the 21-day ultimatum, we again issued another 14-day ultimatum that commenced from September 23.
”So, we want Nigerians to blame the federal government if ASUU decides to down tools and shut down public universities,” he said.
Mr Namo highlighted the lingering issues, including the non-conclusion of the re-negotiation of the 2009 agreement, non-release of the three-and-half-month salaries of academic staff, unpaid salaries of all academic staff on adjunct appointment and outstanding third-party deductions.
He said other lingering issues were poor funding for the revitalisation of public universities, no payment of Earned Academic Allowances (EAA) as captured in the 2023 budget, proliferation of universities, and non-implementation of the reports of visitation panels to universities, among others.
(NAN)