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”.