On Monday, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) extended its warning strike by eight weeks to compel President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime to address their concerns.

ASUU president Emmanuel Osodeke announced this in a communiqué issued at the end of the union’s national executive council emergency meeting on Monday in Abuja.

“NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for another eight weeks to give the government more time to address all the issues in concrete terms so that the government will resume as soon as possible,” he said.

ASUU had on February 14 embarked on a nationwide warning strike to press home its demands.

Mr Osodeke said NEC noted that the union’s leadership had held meetings with the regime in the last four weeks that the strike had lasted.

“However, NEC was disappointed that the government did not treat the matters involved with the utmost urgency they deserved during the four weeks as expected of a reasonable, responsive, and well-meaning administration,” said the ASUU leader.

He added, “NEC viewed the government’s response, so far, as a continuation of the unconscionable, mindless, and nonchalant attitude of the Nigerian ruling elite towards the proven path of national development which is education. NEC, having taken reports on the engagement of the trustees and principal officers with the government, concluded that government had failed to satisfactorily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the four-weeks-roll over strike period.”

(NAN)