The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has notified the Nigerian government of plans to down tools.
The notice was issued at the end of the NEC meeting held at the University of Ibadan.
“It is not an ultimatum but a strike notice. We are giving them 21 days’ notice, after which we shall embark on strike,” a source within the national executive council of ASUU told PUNCH on Monday.
Some of the demands included the non-implementation of the 2009 re-negotiated agreements.
Minister of education Prof. Tahir Mamman, on June 26, invited the union to a meeting to deliberate on the lingering issues affecting universities and to avert the planned strike.
National president of ASUU Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, who spoke on the outcome of the meeting, said the agreements reached with the Federal Government had not been implemented.
“At the meeting called by the minister of education, we agreed that after two weeks, we will meet to see the progress the government has made.
“We will also see what we will do next if the government fail to implement the agreements reached,” he said.
Osodeke said nothing has been done about the academic allowances due to ASUU members which have accumulated for over six years.
