ASUU: SUMMARY OF PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU) HELD AT THE END OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (NEC) MEETING ON 10TH - 11TH FEBRUARY,2024.
Comrades and compatriots of the Press,
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) held its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, between Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th February, 2024.
At the meeting, the union undertook a comprehensive review of the state of its engagements with Federal and State Governments on how to reposition Nigeria's public universities for global reckoning by arresting the worsening
living and working conditions in the universities and the nation at large.
The meeting was alarmed, going by the reports it received, on the failed promises of the Tinubu-led
administration toward addressing the lingering issues that forced the union to embark on the nationwide strike action of February-October 2022.
NEC was seriously alarmed by reports of the increasing number of Nigerian academics who have died or are currently nursing life-threatening ailments as a result of work-related stress and chronic pauperization arising from failed promises by the governments and the general macro-economic climate of the country. This press conference is intended to update Nigerians on developments since the suspension of our last national strike action on Friday, 14th October, 2022 and our engagements with the current administration since its inception.
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