The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike to press home its demands for the implementation of its 2009 agreement with the Federal Government.ASUU Lagos Zone Coordinator, Prof. Olusoji Sowande, said this at a news conference on Tuesday in Lagos.Sowande said that the union was planning to toe this part after several efforts to ensure that the government address the pending demands, proved abortive.He said that the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement, Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on funding of state universities, breaches of the conditions of service and re -negotiation of the agreement, were still pending. Sowande said that based on MOU signed in November 2013, ``Nigerian universities requires N1.3 trillion to revitalize the system’’, adding that the government was already in arrears of N605 billion as at the third quarter of 2016.``In order to forestall this avoidable crisis, we appeal to all genuinely progressive individuals and groups to prevail on both the Federal and State Governments to commence release of funds for the listed purposes.
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