LAGOS, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Academic activities in Nigerian universities are grounded as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has commenced an indefinite nationwide strike for more financial support.
Strikers are pressing for the implementation of an agreement signed between the ASUU and the Nigerian federal government in 2009.
ASUU President Biodun Ogunyemi announced the strike on Monday in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city, where the ASUU concluded an emergency national executive council meeting.
"There shall be no teaching, no examination and no attendance of statutory meetings of any kind in any of our branches till government meets the union's demands," he told reporters.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in January approved a 16-man committee, headed by Wale Babalakin, to renegotiate the 2009 Federal Government agreement with the staff unions in the federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.
The committee was constituted with a view to engendering sustainable peace and industrial harmony in tertiary institutions.
The ASUU president said the Wale Babalakin-led committee set up by the government lacked the powers to resolve the issue as there were unimplemented items in the 2009 agreement.
