Education

UNIMAID academic technologists embark on strike

The members of the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in Borno State have embarked on a three-day warning strike to press home their demands.

NAAT action which further grounded activities in UNIMAID is coming in the hills of an already existing one-week strike by the members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions (NASU) in the institution.

The UNIMAID NAAT Chairman, Yusuf Bulus, while speaking during a protest in Maiduguri on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, said the association’s action was to demand the full implementation of the 2009 agreement with the Federal Government.

Strike: SSANU, NASU, NAAT protest in UNILAG

Bulus said: “Our association is demanding payment of outstanding earned academic allowances, release of enabling circular for career elongation for CONTISS 14 and 15 and upgrading of obsolete equipment.

“Others include overhaul of the dilapidated laboratory structures in our citadel of higher learning and re-negotiation of the aforementioned 2009 agreement.”

Bulus recalled that on assumption of office, President Bola Tinubu granted a waiver for the payment of withheld salaries for its members but the waiver was yet to materialise despite reminders from the association.

“In the course of this warning industrial dispute, all laboratories will be shut down, there will be no teaching of practicals, no project works and no research works,” he added.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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