{"id":78904,"date":"2025-11-18T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78904"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T13:34:33","slug":"asuu-threatens-nationwide-strike-over-government-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/18\/asuu-threatens-nationwide-strike-over-government-inaction\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUU Threatens Nationwide Strike Over Government Inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has warned it will resume a nationwide strike if the Federal Government fails to meet its demands within a one-month ultimatum.<\/p>\n<p>ASUU Kano Zonal Coordinator, Abdulkadir Muhammad, made the warning Monday in Kano, noting that negotiations with the government have been slow.<\/p>\n<p>The union had in October suspended a warning strike to give the government time to address lecturers\u2019 welfare and improve teaching and learning conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad described the government\u2019s approach as sluggish and misleading, saying officials have yet to show genuine commitment to improving lecturers\u2019 working conditions or curbing the brain drain affecting public universities.<\/p>\n<p>He also dismissed claims that ASUU\u2019s demands have already been met.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinator called for a moratorium on establishing new state universities, arguing that many are underfunded by their founders.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from several universities, including ABU, BUK, KASU, ADUSTECH, FUD, NWU Kano, and SLUK, attended the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has warned it will resume a nationwide strike if the Federal Government fails to meet its demands within a one-month ultimatum. ASUU Kano Zonal Coordinator, Abdulkadir Muhammad, made the warning Monday in Kano, noting that negotiations with the government have been slow. The union [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78904","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\/78904","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=78904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78906,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78904\/revisions\/78906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}