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Is There an End to Nigeria's Endless Lecturer Strikes?

Lecturers in Nigerian public universities have embarked on strikes 16 times since 1999. The latest strike by lecturers, which started on 14 February 2022, is the 17th in 23 years, writes Moina Spooner and Segun Oluwagbile for The Conversation.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) went on strike, accusing the government of reneging on the agreements it reached in order to suspend its last industrial action in 2020. The two most important demands that could end the strike, are the renegotiation of the 2009 federal government-ASUU agreement on the working conditions of Nigerian academics and the deployment of UTAS to replace the PPPIS system.

Other demands include the payment of earned academic allowances; a revitalisation fund for universities; fixing of discrepancies in the payment of salaries; funding of state universities, and the release of white papers on visitation panels sent to universities.

However, amidst the strike, Parliament is mulling the idea of creating 63 new public institutions of higher education. 

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