The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has issued a two- week ultimatum to the federal government respond to its demands or face a nationwide strike action.
The president of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, made this threat at a press conference on Tuesday at the ASUU national headquarters in Abuja.
He said the federal government was to blame for its failure to appoint new governing councils for federal universities after dissolving them in May last year for the impending strike action.
” Government needs to be accountable to the people for every decision it makes”, Osodeke said.
The union also accused the government of President Bola Tinubu of having a nonchalant attitude towards matters pertaining to academics in Nigerian Federal Universities.
ASUU further faulted the 35 per cent salary increment for professors and the 25 per cent salary increment for other academics in the university system, saying the wage award could be easily withdrawn by the government anytime it deems