\n<\/p>\n
Lecturers at public universities in Nigeria have begun a two-week strike over pay and funding.<\/p>\n
The industrial action comes just weeks after universities resumed for a new academic year.<\/p>\n
Announcing the decision, the leader of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (Asuu), Professor Chris Piwuna, described the decision as “inevitable” due to what he said was government failures.<\/p>\n
The government has urged lecturers to reconsider the strike, stressing that constructive dialogue remains the best way to resolve the crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The government added that striking lecturers can expect not to be paid under the country’s “No Work, No Pay” labour law.<\/p>\n
In a statement, it said it had made a comprehensive offer to the union addressing key issues such as working conditions, institutional governance and staff welfare.<\/p>\n
The government added that it was still awaiting ASUU’s official response.<\/p>\n
Nigeria’s university lecturers have a long history of industrial action over issues of funding, salaries, and welfare.<\/p>\n
ASUU’s disputes with successive governments date back to the 1980s.<\/p>\n
Agreements reached in 1992, 2009 and 2013 have often gone unfulfilled, prompting repeated strikes.<\/p>\n