UNIMAID: NAAT members launch three-day warning strike amidst ongoing unrest

Amidst ongoing unrest within the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), members of the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) commenced a three-day warning strike on Wednesday to advocate for their demands.

The NAAT’s action adds to the disruption already caused by a one-week strike initiated by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) within the institution.

The decision by NAAT members to embark on the strike exacerbates the halt in activities at UNIMAID, intensifying the strain on academic operations and administrative functions.

“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 materialise despite reminders from the association.

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