NASU, SSANU, NAAT STRIKE IN UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS

Did you ever wonder where the laboratory technologists belong?
Did you ever wonder where the cleaners in the faculties, hostels and around the school belong?
How about the security personnel?
How about the people that do the major work at the centre for information and technology systems (CITS)?
How about the hostel managers? And many other non-academic staff in the school.


Yes, they belong to NASU the NON ACADEMIC STAFF UNION and they exist in all universities in Nigeria.

Three months ago they commenced a strike that shut down all activities in the school, fresher’s registration, hostel balloting was moved from one set date to another, lights in the school generally was turned off leaving students in the hostel in chaos, laboratory activities were either cut short or kept on hold and how can i leave aside the school’s CONVOCATION?

Convocation that was scheduled on a particular date( Feb 14-16) was threatened by the strike and had to be postponed, it is no longer one university’s issue but the issue faced generally by all universities.

Non-teaching staff of universities across Nigeria have been on strike since last year to protest what they called uneven sharing of earned allowances between them and the university lecturers, they are fighting for their pay, a pay which the government said they have given to the ACADEMIC STAFF UNION (ASU).

You can ask if they share same bank account but do not ask me, funny, right?
The government has put this issue aside and have faced what they consider more pressing than this, some say NASU is insignificant and can be scrapped but can the schools really do without them?
But why exactly is it happening? Why should such exist in this country? And why is the need of this body not considered? Or has the government at any point met with the leaders of this group to negotiate and bring this chaos to an end?
And in all of this, quality lecture is undermined due to strike how then can quality students be produced?
We plead that the elephants meet real soon so as to iron out this issue, we ask that the government come to an agreement with the NON-ACADEMIC STAFF UNION real soon.
Our school is not in good order, our hostels are not properly secured and we are fed with theories and no practical where necessary.