AAU, UNIBEN join warning strike

Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) in the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma and the University of Benin joined in the nationwide warning strike.At the University of Benin, the monitoring team of labour unions made sure offices were not opened.The offices that were already opened were shut down.Some of the university staff were seen at various places in the institution.Only one gate at the main campus of the university in Ugbowo was open for vehicles to go in.This caused heavy vehicular traffic that stretched into the BeninLagos road.At UNIBEN Ekenwan Campus, the situation was the same as many offices were locked.Read Also:NASU strike: Admission seekers stranded as varsity shelves screeningChairman of UNIBEN chapter of NASU, Comrade Anthony Igbinosa, said he was satisfied with the compliance as it was a fight for common course.In his words, So far so good, it has been actually successful, we expected our members to comply and they actually did. If you go round the campus, you will see that everywhere is sealed up and this will continue till Friday 23rd of August 2019, until we get directives from the national. So far if we have a hundred, I would rate it ninety-nine percent.Some students complained of no water in their hostels because no one on duty to pump the water.Academic activities were on in AAU but the concerned labour leaders ensured their members stayed away from work.
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