Nigeria lecturers go on strike, drawing rebuke from student leaders
University of Nigeria, Nnsuka. Forty-three federal and 48 state universities in Nigeria have been shut following another strike by lecturers to force the government to fully implement a 2009 agreement on their welfare. FILE PHOTO| NMG
The strike, which started on Monday, is the 16th since Nigeria returned to democratic rule in 1999, and more than 1.8 million students have been affected.
The lecturers, who are members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), went on strike over the government’s insistence on paying the salaries of all staff in federal universities through a platform that handles pay for all federal government workers.
The strike has drawn condemnation, with some state chapters holding a contrary opinion and students resolving to embark on a showdown with the union.
