Colleges Of Education lecturers begin nationwide strike today

Barely two weeks after the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, ASUU, called off its five-months-old
strike, lecturers in the Colleges of Education are set
to begin a nationwide strike today.
This was made known in a letter to the Supervising
Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike in Abuja.
The letter, which was delivered by the General
Secretary of the Colleges of Education Academic
Staff Union, Mr. Nuhu Ogirima, lamented that the
Federal Government had failed to address issues
raised by the Union.
The union’s complaints are infrastructural decay,
poor funding, non-implementation of the 2010 FG-
COEASU agreement, poor conditions of service,
brain drain and illegal imposition of the Integrated
Personnel and Payroll Information System.
In the letter signed by the
COEASU National
President, Asagha Nkoro
and Ogirima, the union
accused the government
of directing the National
Commission for Colleges
of Education to impose
the IPPIS on colleges
without recourse to
earlier meetings by the
parties.
In compliance with the
resolution of its Expanded
National Executive
Council Meeting, COEASU
said its members had
been directed to resume
a full scale strike action
suspended earlier this
year, “unless and until
government meets the
demands”.