{"id":76560,"date":"2025-10-13T07:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76560"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:40:30","slug":"asuu-embarks-on-two-week-warning-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/13\/asuu-embarks-on-two-week-warning-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU Embarks on Two-Week Warning Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adeola Samuel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday began a two-week warning strike after its 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government expired on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>ASUU National President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, announced the action at the University of Abuja, saying the government had failed to meet key demands, including the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, payment of withheld salaries, revitalisation funds, and arrears of promotions.<\/p>\n<p>He said the strike would be \u201ctotal and comprehensive,\u201d describing the government\u2019s latest offer as \u201cprovocative and inconsistent\u201d with earlier agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, the Federal Government urged ASUU to return to dialogue, warning it would enforce the no work, no pay policy.<\/p>\n<p>Education Minister, Dr. Tunji Alausa, said the Tinubu administration had released N50 billion for Earned Allowances and budgeted N150 billion for university revitalisation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NANS appealed to both sides to embrace dialogue, warning that another strike would worsen the hardship faced by students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adeola Samuel &nbsp; The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday began a two-week warning strike after its 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government expired on Sunday. ASUU National President, Prof. Chris Piwuna, announced the action at the University of Abuja, saying the government had failed to meet key demands, including the renegotiation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76562,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76560\/revisions\/76562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}