News: ASUU STRIKE, Support your colleagues, Babangida urges private and state universities

Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, has said lecturers of states and private universities should not join federal universities staff to embark on strike.


Aliyu said this in Minna on Tuesday when he received in audience members of the Governing board of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, in Government House.

The governor argued that in a federation, what obtains at the Federal level should not necessarily affect states, especially if the demands of the aggrieved lecturers were not the same.

He said, “The union at the centre cannot ask people at the state to go on strike. State universities are like private universities; they cannot go on strike just because their colleagues at the federal universities are on strike.”

Aliyu said he discussed the first convocation of the university with the visitors and the ongoing strike by members of ASUU.