The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to sign and implement the renegotiated 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement in line with the collective bargaining principles as enshrined in the International Labour Organization Convention.
The Coordinator of the Lagos zone of the Union, Prof. Adelaja Odukoya, made the appeal on Friday while addressing the press at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago Iwoye, Ogun State.
ASUU said that should the President heed to the appeal and act accordingly, it would save the nation’s public universities from imminent collapse.
The Union added that it would also ensure that the lecturers were not forced into another round of avoidable industrial action courtesy of the current conditions of service.
Prof. Odukoya said the Union was seeking an interface with the President on how to resolve all issues plaguing the public universities in Nigeria.
He urged the Tinubu-led Federal Government to, without further delay, set in motion machinery for the quick signing and implementation of the agreement to avoid another round of industrial crises in the nation’s public universities.
He identified other issues requiring urgent attention of the Federal Government as poor funding and proliferation of state and federal universities, non-release of monthly subventions, irregular payment of staff salaries, decayed and dilapidated infrastructures, non-payment/release of check-off and other third party deductions etc.
The Lagos zone coordinator lamented that visitors of federal and state universities have turned establishment of universities to constituency projects.
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