ASUU EXTENDS STRIKE BY FOUR WEEKS

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has again extended the ongoing strike by four weeks.

President of the union, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, said the decision was to give the government enough time to resolve all outstanding issues with the lecturers.

Noting that the body conveyed an emergency National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting of the association at the University of Abuja on Sunday, the ASUU President said the extension was with immediate effect on August 1.