ASUU STRIKE
ASUU STRIKE: ISSUES IN CONTENTION “…we have elected and we have chosen to elect people who do not have education. And because they are not educated, they cannot give education” -Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II Like a thief in the night, the news of an indefinite, total, and comprehensive strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities broke into various homes on Sunday, November 4, 2018. The National Executive Council of the union which held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, had unanimously expressed collective disappointment at the ‘Government of Change’ that no substantial progress has been made on the issues of the implementation of 2009 FGN/ASUU agreements, Memorandum of Understanding 2012 and 2013) and Memorandum of Action 2017) and the truncation of the renegotiation of the union’s agreements. The goal of the strike is to compel government to address the funding for revitalisation of public universities based on the FGN-ASUU MoU of 2012, 2013 and the MoA ...