Nigeria: ASUU Vows to Shut Down Varsities

20 September 2011

Benin — Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday vowed to shut down universities, even as it issued a one week warning strike "beginning from September 25 "to compel the Federal Government to honor an agreement it willingly entered into and signed with it in 2009.

The union said the warning strike becomes imperative due to the critical aspects of the agreement including the non-passage of the law on 70 year retirement age for academics in Professional cadre, earned allowances and funding.

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