The Academic Staff Union of Universities’ National Executive Council has announced a four-week extension of the current strike at public universities.

President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, announced in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the four weeks extension would give the government more time to resolve all the outstanding issues.

“Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA), NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for four weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues,” ASUU said in a stated.

“The role-over strike action is with effect from 12.01 a.m. on Monday, 1st August 2022.”