ASUU begins indefinite strike at University of Jos

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(Nigeria) Lecturers of the University of Jos, Plateau State, have begun an indefinite strike to press home their demands for improved working conditions.
The lecturers, in a statement by Prof F. C. Piwuna, the Chairman of the university's chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Friday in Jos, said ASUU's National Executive Council, NEC, had approved the action.
``The NEC of ASUU has approved our request for total, indefinte and comprehensive strike starting immediately.
``It means that all activities -- teaching, supervision, examination as well as statutory and ad hoc committee meetings -- have been suspended,'' it said.
Though Piwuna did not give further details on the reasons for the strike, it was learnt that the lecturers' grievances bordered on, among other things, alleged discrepancies in the payments of entitlements.
The lecturers are also demanding that certain allowances being enjoyed by their colleagues in other institutions be paid to them.

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