ASUU EXTENDS STRIKE BY EIGHT WEEKS

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared an eight-week strike after its four-week warning strike ended.

The union took the decision during its National Executive Council (NEC), meeting held in Abuja, last night.

According to a member of the union, who spoke to newsmen on the condition of anonymity, the two months is to give the Federal Government space to meet their demands.

Recall that Asuu had on February 14, embarked on a one month warning strike over the Federal Government’s inability to meet the demands the two parties entered into in previous times.