Kaduna varsity lecturers threaten two-week warning strike over welfare concerns
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU) branch, has resolved to embark on a two-week warning strike over unresolved issues bordering welfare.
The union stated this in a notification letter addressed to the university’s vice-chancellor, Abdullahi Musa, signed by its chairman, Peter Adamu and secretary, Peter Waziri.
In the letter, the lecturers explained that the decision was reached at the union’s congress on Thursday.
The union explained that the strike was to protest the nonpayment of five months’ salaries from May to September 2022, 60 per cent of September 2017 and other withheld salaries of academic staff.
According to the union, other unresolved issues included earned academic allowance from 2018 to date, pension remittances from 2009 to 2019 and Group Life Insurance for deceased academic staff from 2019 to date.
“The warning strike shall be embarked on by members in KASU, following approval by the ASUU National Executive Council Meeting, scheduled to hold in the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, between August 2 and August 4, 2024,” the letter said.
(NAN)
We have recently deactivated our website's comment provider in favour of other channels of distribution and commentary. We encourage you to join the conversation on our stories via our Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages.
More from Peoples Gazette
States
Independence: NBA urges Nigerians to expect better future
The NBA said that ordinary Nigerians should be deriving benefit from the subsidy removal rather than hardship.
Agriculture
FG tasks ECOWAS on leveraging financing strategies for agroecology
The federal government has urged stakeholders in the agriculture and finance sectors in the West Africa region to leverage financing strategies to enhance agroecology practices
Politics
Katsina youths pledge to deliver over 2 million votes to Atiku
“Katsina State is Atiku’s political base because it is his second home.”
Heading 4
Shettima urges statisticians to strengthen Nigeria’s data systems
Mr Shettima said credible statistics were essential for effective governance and economic planning.
Heading 1
19 injured in minibus collision with train in France
The minibus was conveying truck drivers.
Heading 5
Sokoto: Customs confiscate truckload of contraband worth N722 million
He urged Nigerians to support the NCS by providing credible information that could help eradicate smuggling.
Heading 3
2027: Tinubu directs security chiefs to rescue abducted Nigerians, crush terrorists
Mr Musa said Mr Tinubu also stressed the need for free, fair and credible elections.
Heading 2
INEC decries exclusion of PWDs from elective positions in Akwa Ibom
Mr Onuoha said the commission would hold a sensitisation programme for persons with disabilities on Friday in Uyo.
World
UK court sentences Irish lawmaker Jeffrey Donaldson to 15 years in prison for raping children
One of the women described the rape as “the worst moment of her life”.
