By our Reporter
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is currently holding its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Calabar, Cross River State capital, between Saturday and Sunday.
ASUU, the body of university lecturers in the country, has been at loggerheads with the Nigerian government over unfulfilled pledges and the continued refusal to pay the eight month salaries of its members withheld for the period of the last prolonged industrial action by the union.
NEC is the highest decision making body of the union and sources who are members of the body have confirmed the possibility of declaring another round of indefinite strike action by ASUU at the meeting or later in the month.
Meanwhile, some Universitiese are currently writing examinations and there are fears if ASUU may embark on another strike following Government decision to withheld salaries accrued during the period of strike in the year.
In the past weeks, the lecturers declared a lecture free day and carried out peaceful protests on their respective campuses.
During the protests, they threatened to invoke a ‘No Pay, No Work’ policy, should the government fail to release their withheld March to September salaries and the remaining parts of their October salaries.