Published 11th Mar, 2024

By Abimbola Abatta

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) are set for a seven-day warning strike.

The unions declared this warning strike to demand the payment of the four-month salaries withheld during the 2022 nationwide strike.

According to Channels TV, SSANU and NASU opted for the strike as a last resort since several protest letters and other communications to the federal government failed to lead to the payment of the withheld salaries.

“If nothing is done by the Federal Government to positively address this situation and respond to our previous letters to them, the members of the two unions may be forced to meet soon to take all lawful and stringent decisions on the matter,” the unions were quoted as saying.

FIJ understands that the salaries of university staff members who went on strike were withheld by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2022. In October 2023, President Bola Tinubu ordered the release of four months of the withheld eight-month pay of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

SSANU and NASU, however, claimed that the government failed to consider them.

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