The non-teaching staff of Nigerian universities will commence an indefinite strike nationwide beginning from Monday, 4th December. The staff, who are members of three unions, NASU, SSANU, and NAAT, announced the commencement of the strike last Thursday in a press statement signed by the national presidents of the three unions.
This new strike is believed to have been triggered by the sharing formula approved by the federal government for the recently released N23 billion to universities as earned allowance.
The lecturers’ union ASUU received about 75 per cent of the funds and the non-teaching staff got the rest. The non-academic staff now say they were short-changed in the sharing formula.
The workers also say the government has failed to fulfil any of the agreements reached more than two months ago, when a previous strike was called off.
