JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE OF NASU AND SSANU PRESS STATEMENT
PRESS STATEMENT ON THE ONGOING INDUSTRIAL UNREST IN THE NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OVER THE LACK OF RESPECT FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO WITH GOVERNMENT TODAY, 22ND JANUARY 2021 We start this engagement with our friends in the media by wishing you all a happy new year 2021 and warm compliments of the season. We pray that the new year gives good tidings to us all, individually and collectively. Sadly, while we congratulate ourselves for seeing through 2020 to its end with high hopes and expectations for a brighter 2021, the situation across our University campuses and Inter-University Centres have been bleak and disillusioning, thereby not giving us cause to cheer and celebrate as we ordinarily should. This is on account of the unhealthy disposition of the Federal Government of Nigeria to Collective Bargaining Agreements and the contempt and disdain with which its officials and representatives hold the non-teaching staff members of NASU and SSANU in the Universitie