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By NAN
26 July 2024 | 6:45 am
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU) Branch, has resolved to embark on a two weeks warning strike over unresolved issues bothering on welfare. The union stated this in a notification letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abdullahi Musa, signed by its Chairman, Dr Peter Adamu and Secretary,…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU) Branch, has resolved to embark on a two weeks warning strike over unresolved issues bothering on welfare.
The union stated this in a notification letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abdullahi Musa, signed by its Chairman, Dr Peter Adamu and Secretary, Dr Peter Waziri.
In the letter, obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna, the lecturers explained that the decision was reached at the union’s congress held on Thursday.
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The union explained that the strike was to protest nonpayment of five months salaries from May to September 2022, 60 per cent September 2017 and other withheld salaries of academic staff.
Other unresolved issues, according to the union, 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 by members in KASU, following approval by the ASUU National Executive Council Meeting, scheduled to hold in the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, between Aug. 2 and Aug. 4, 2024,” the letter said.
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU) Branch, has resolved to embark on a two weeks warning strike over unresolved issues bothering on welfare. The union stated this in a notification letter addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abdullahi Musa, signed by its Chairman, Dr Peter Adamu and Secretary,…
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