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BREAKING: SSANU, NASU, NAAT Declare Total Strike Weeks After ASUU Begins Indefinite Strike
The Joint Action Committee, JAC, of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU; Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU; and the National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT, on Wednesday announced indefinite strike.
BigPen Online recalls the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had earlier declared its strike as total and indefinite, threatening to sanction any defaulting institution which holds lectures, examination or any nocturnal meeting while the action would last.
With this development, all Nigerian public universities would be shut in totality as SSANU, NASU, NAAT have resolved to embark on its indefinite strike from September 11.
At a press conference in Abuja, the chairman of JAC who is also the President of SSANU, Samson Ugwoke, explained reasons for their decisions.
Mr. Ugwoke said the nationwide strike would be total and comprehensive.
“During the strike, there shall be no provision of services, no matter how skeletal. Concessions shall not be granted while all our members are to stay at home till further notice, unless as directed by JAC through their respective presidents,” he said.
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