The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Owerri Zone, has threatened a total showdown with the Federal Government over the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement. 

The union said during a press conference at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, that it would embark on an indefinite strike as “the magnanimity of ASUU that resulted in various MOUs and MOAs arising from the 2009 agreement has been spurned by the Federal Government.

Leaders of the union from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State University, Owerri, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam and Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, were in attendance. 

Addressing journalists, the ASUU Zonal Coordinator, UZO ONYEBINAMA, explained that some lecturers are being owed as much as 10 months’ salary.

Meanwhile, ASUU Benin Zone, says the impending strike by the nation’s university lecturers is a last resort to draw government attention to their plights and not to derail academic activities.