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Nigerian University Education and ASUU Strike

  For a very long time, the Nigerian University education has suffered a number of strike actions by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which ultimately send students back home and halt the academic activities in the university. These strike actions, most often start with a warning strike; the aim of which is to give room to both ASUU and other stakeholders (mostly the government) to proper solution to the problem causing the industrial action. Unfortunately, almost all the time, the warning strike always matures into a  comprehensive, total and indefinite strike. Since the return of democracy (1999), ASUU went on strike about six to seven times, for varying reasons. Recently, ASUU started a warning strike in march 2020 which matured into the current total, indefinite strike. The major points of the current strike action will be highlighted one after the other. However, it is worthy of note that these things that the ASUU is demanding (except the IPPIS), were agr...