{"id":78141,"date":"2025-11-05T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78141"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:28:17","slug":"umyu-unions-begin-two-week-warning-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/05\/umyu-unions-begin-two-week-warning-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"UMYU Unions Begin Two-Week Warning Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Academic and non-academic activities have been paralysed at Umaru Musa Yar\u2019adua University (UMYU), Katsina, as four campus unions embarked on a two-week warning strike effective November 3.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement issued on Wednesday and signed by the ASUU-UMYU Chairman, Dr. Murtala Abdullahi, the unions, ASUU, SSANU, NAAT, and NASU said the action followed the state government\u2019s failure to honour agreements reached since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Abdullahi noted that despite repeated appeals and a recent three-week grace period, the government had failed to address issues concerning staff welfare, job security, and the university\u2019s autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government\u2019s continued inaction shows a lack of seriousness in addressing our members\u2019 plight,\u201d he said, adding that the strike became necessary after exhausting all avenues of dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The unions appealed to students, parents, and the public for understanding, stressing that their action aimed to safeguard quality education and staff welfare.<\/p>\n<p>They warned that if the government fails to act within the two-week window, the unions would decide on further steps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; Academic and non-academic activities have been paralysed at Umaru Musa Yar\u2019adua University (UMYU), Katsina, as four campus unions embarked on a two-week warning strike effective November 3. In a joint statement issued on Wednesday and signed by the ASUU-UMYU Chairman, Dr. Murtala Abdullahi, the unions, ASUU, SSANU, NAAT, and NASU said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":78142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78141","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\/78141","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78143,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78141\/revisions\/78143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}