UNIMAID academic technologists embark on strike

Members of the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) embarked on a three-day warningstrike action to press home their demands.

Supreme News reports that NAAT action, which further grounded activities in UNIMAID, is coming in the hillsof an already existing one-week strike by members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) in the institution.

Mr. Yusuf Bulus, the UNIMAID branch chairman of NAAT, said at a protest in Maiduguri that their action was to demand the full implementation of the 2009 agreement with the Federal Government.

“Our association is demanding payment of outstanding earned academic allowances, release of enabling circular for career elongation for CONTISS 14 and 15 and upgrading of obsolete equipment.

“Others include overhaul of the dilapidated laboratory structures in our citadel of higher learning and re-negotiation of the aforementioned 2009 agreement.” he said.

Bulus recalled that on assumption of duty, President Bola Tinubu had granted a waiver for the payment of withheld salaries for its members but the waiver was,yet to materialize despite reminders from the association.

“In the course of this warning industrial dispute, all laboratories will be shut down; there will be noteaching of practicals, no project work, and no research work,” he said.