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Efio-Ita Nyok|19 August 2017
The apex pressure group comprising members of the academia in Nigeria, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had on Sunday 12th August embarked on an indefinite industrial action. According to reports, the national executive council (NEC) of ASUU met at the university of Abuja main campus, Giri, on the 12th of August 2017 to consider the results of a referendum from all branches in a bid to ascertain ways of convincing government to implement outstanding aspects of the 2009 agreement and MoU of 2013.
NegroidHaven has gotten wind of how the former member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives reportedly captured the development. His words, ‘This ASUU strike is a miasma of a deprecable apothesis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascadinly oozing into a maladorous excresence of mobocracy.
‘With all tarmangant ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy, our knowledgia centura is enveloped in a paraphlegic crinkum crankum.
‘Therefore, ASUU, cest in dejavu, dejavu peret ologomabia’.
Did you understand what Obahiagbon really said? What follows is a history of strikes embarked by ASUU beginning from 1999 through 2014:
1999 —5 months
2001 —3 months
2002 —2 weeks
2003 —6 months(ended in 2004)
2005 —3 days
2006 —1 week
2007 —3 months
2008 —1 week
2009 —4 months
2010 —5 months and 1week
2011 —3 months (ended in 2012)
2013 — 4 Months
2014 — One week warning strike between March and April and 1 month August – September, 8 months.
It has been garnered that poor funding of universities, part-payment of salaries of lecturers and the kidnap of two lecturers of the University of Maiduguri by the Boko Haram are among major reasons for the strike action by ASUU.
Nigerians are expecting the present administration at the centre to resolve this labour quagmire as soon as possible.
Efio-Ita Nyok
Is a Blogger, the Editor & Publisher of NegroidHaven
