ASUU STRIKE : NLC Plans Nationwide Protest To Save Nigeria Education System
By Editor
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed all its state chapter and affiliate unions to be part of a two day Nationwide protest scheduled for Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th July 2022, as a solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that have been on strike for some months now.
The public Universities in Nigeria have been shot for months due to a protracted face off between the Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over funding and other related issues.
The NLC’s decision is an attempt to rescue the nation’s education system from impending doom occasioned by the protracted face off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
In a memo addressed to the Chairpersons and secretaries of state councils, dated 15th July 2022 and titled “NATIONAL PROTEST TO GET OUR CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL”, jointly signed by President, NLC, Ayuba Wabara and the General Secretary, Emmanuel Ugboaja respectively, the NLC said “in line with the decisions of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NLC held on the 30th of June, 2022, we have scheduled as follows the National day of protest to get our children back to school and support our Unions in Nigeria’s Public Universities fighting for quality education.”
The memo which requested state officers to “immediately convene the meeting of your SAC to disseminate this information and to fully mobilize workers in the states for this very important protest for good governance” states that the protest will hold, simultaneously, in all the state capitals of the federation and the FCT with the NLC state Secretariats and the Labour House, Abuja, as the take off points.
