Prof Emmanuel Osodeke says the Academic Staff Union of Universities has extended the ongoing strike by twelve weeks.
The president of the union, says the decision was to give the government enough time to resolve all outstanding issues with the lecturers.
He says the Government’s failure to live up to its responsibilities and speedily address all the issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action within the additional eight-week roll–over strike period declared on 14th March 2022.
He added that the NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for twelve weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues.