The Senior Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (SSANU)  and the Non-Academic Staff Union have placed three demands before President Muhammadu Buhari for immediate positive actions to avert further industrial crises and disruption of administrative and academic activities in federal universities in the country.

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The demands were placed before Buhari as members of SSANU and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU)  conclude their five-day warning strike today.

National Vice President and Chairman of Western Zone of SSANU, Mr. Alfred Jimoh while speaking with journalists in Ibadan on Thursday at a congress held at the University of Ibadan the three demands include immediate reinstatement of all teachers of University Staff School to the payroll of their individual universities, and payment of all the arrears of salaries being owed them, including all their arrears of promotion.

Comrade Jimoh and the Chairman of the union at the University of Ibadan, Comrade Wale Akinremi said the unions demand for a circular from the Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Budget and Planning to edit its contentious Budget Call Circular which had always stated that inclusion of staff schools teachers on the University Budget amounts to willful inclusion of Ghost workers on the budget even after the December 5, 2016 judgment.

The association also said the Wale Babalakin Committee should go back to its work immediately on the renegotiation of the 2017 Agreement bin 2017, with a view to concluding its works within a very short timeline.

Correspondent Kunle Ojo reports that some of the staff school teachers who spoke with journalists on the news of their reinstatement thanked God for the development while they also commended the union leaders for their resilience on the matter.

The Union leaders maintained that they are not at loggerheads with the counterpart in the academic cadre neither are they asking for equality with the teaching staff but are demanding for equality and fairness in the system.