ASUU embarks on indefinite strike

The Academic Staff union of Universities (ASUU) has declared an indefinite strike.

ASUU President Professor

Biodun Ogunyem declared this yesterday while addressing journalists at the union’s National Secretariat in Abuja.

The union had on March

embarked on a twoweek

9 warning strike over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, among others.

Biodun said: “NEC resolved, to embark on a total, comprehensive and indefinite strike beginning Monday, 23 March 2020 until the issues are satisfactorily resolved.”

He alleged that the federal government resorted to use “hunger as a weapon of war” university lecturers.