By our Reporter
The Academic Staff Union of Universities,(ASUU) on Friday commenced meeting in all Public Universities across the country.
ASUU had expressed doubts over the ability of the Federal Government under the adminiatration of the President Muhammadu Buhari to resolve the lingering crisis in the education sector.
Our correspondent who visited Federal University of Technology, Akure on Friday found out it was a lecture free day declared as a result of ASUU meeting on whether to commence strike or not.
The union said an indefinite strike will commence based on decisions of local chapters.
The union described as “shameful” the continued defence of IPPIS by the Federal Government despite reported fraud in it’s implementation as indicated in the 2021 report submitted to the National Assembly by the Auditor General of the Federation.
In a statement on Friday, ASUU lamented the numerous past negotiations and agreements with the Federal Government on how to revamp the education sector but which the government had shown no commitment to implement.
Finding revealed that most schools that didnt observe the friday no lecture day will carry on Monday, february 9 at their respective campuses.
Multiple circulars issued by the various branches of the union announcing the decision, noted that the lecture-free day will be used to sensitise the university communities and the general public on the failure of the government to honour an agreement the parties entered into in December 2020, and which led to the suspension of a nine-month prolonged strike then.