The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Yobe State University branch, has announced an indefinite strike.
The union is demanding that the Yobe State Government implement the 2024 N70,000 minimum wage consequential adjustment, ensure appropriate promotion placements, and pay arrears related to the 2019 minimum wage adjustment.
Additional demands include the payment of 35% and 25% salary awards, implementation of consequential adjustments from January 2023 to date, and the provision of postgraduate facilitation allowances for academic staff, among other unresolved issues.
The Chairman of the Yobe varsity ASUU chapter, Ahmed Karage, disclosed that the members of the union will not resume work until their demands are met.
“After several months of engagements, formal communications, and appeals to relevant government authorities, we regret to inform you that the academic staff under the umbrella of ASUU has been compelled to embark on indefinite industrial action due to the government’s failure to meet our demands presented,” Karage said.
“These include implementation of a N70,000 minimum wage of 2024 consequential adjustment, appropriate promotion placement and yearly increment, and payment of arrears of minimum wage of 2019 consequential adjustment.
“Other demands include payment of thirty-five percent and twenty-five percent salary award consequential adjustment from January 2023 to date, postgraduate facilitation allowances for staff, among others,” he said
The union is also demanding autonomy for the university.
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