ASUU warning strike grounds academic activities in FUT Minna, IBB University, Lapai

— Abdulkadir Kure University Exempted

By Wole Mosadomi, Minna

Academic activities person been paralysed astatine the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, and the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU), Lapai, pursuing the commencement of a two-week informing onslaught declared by the nationalist enactment of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

However, the recently established Abdulkadir Kure University, Minna, has not joined the strike, arsenic the instauration does not yet person a functional ASUU branch.

A sojourn to some FUT Minna and IBBU Lapai revealed that classrooms and lecture halls were deserted, portion students were seen successful clusters discussing the development.

At FUT Minna, astir students had completed their examinations past week and travelled location earlier the onslaught began. However, immoderate who were yet to decorativeness their papers were caught successful the mediate of the action, with a fewer seen loitering astir the Bosso and Gidan Kwano campuses successful frustration.

Confirming the situation, the ASUU Chairman of FUT Minna, Professor Lukeman Iyewobi, said the instauration had afloat complied with the directive of the union’s nationalist leadership.

“We are connected onslaught present astatine the Federal University of Technology, Minna, successful accordance with the directive of the nationalist body,” Iyewobi said. “There is nary rival national oregon faction of ASUU successful FUT Minna — we are agreed and each beryllium to ASUU.”

Similarly, the ASUU Chairman of IBBU Lapai, Dr. Galadima Bala, confirmed that the assemblage had besides joined the onslaught successful solidarity with the nationalist action.

“The national leaders are warring for our rights, and we volition each payment from it erstwhile our demands are yet met,” Bala stated.

The informing strike, declared by ASUU’s nationalist leadership, is aimed astatine pressing for the implementation of erstwhile agreements reached with the Federal Government, including improved backing for universities, outgo of earned world allowances, and the reappraisal of moving conditions for lecturers.

As of the clip of filing this report, world activities remained mean astatine Abdulkadir Kure University, Minna, which is yet to found an ASUU chapter.

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