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  UNN ASUU, residents urge FG to prevent another strike July 27, 2021 The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) chapter, has advised the Federal Government to take steps to avert another nationwide strike by the union. The UNN chapter Chairman, Dr Christian Opata, gave the advice on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka. Opata spoke against the backdrop of the recent threat by ASUU to resume the strike suspended on Dec. 24, 2020. He described federal government’s failure to fulfill agreements entered with the union since 2009 as unfortunate. He said that federal government would not be exonerated “if the union resumes another strike because of its inability to fulfill an agreement with it”. READ ALSO:  ASUU issues warning of indefinite strike over FG’s refusal to honour agreement The ASUU boss said the UNN chapter of the union was ready to enforce any directive of the national leadership of ASUU at any...

  Tambuwal urges ASUU to devise other means of industrial action, not strikes By Musa Annabi – Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to deploy better ways of engaging the Federal government than the perennial strikes it often embarks on to press its demands. Governor Tambuwal made the plea while receiving the new executives of the Sokoto State University chapter of the union on Thursday. He appealed to the union to develop some skills of negotiations geared towards arriving at consensus and common ground between it and governments at various levels other than the strike. Tambuwal said strike affects the general economy the well-being of the university, states, and the country at large. READ ALSO:  ASUU directs UniJos lecturers to boycott postgraduate activities While congratulating the immediate past executives of the union for their exemplary leadership, he implored their successors to embrace pea...