Half salaries: Fear grips FUL students over possible ASUU strike

By Adeleye Kunle

Some students of the Federal University, Lokoja, FUL, Kogi State, on Sunday expressed the fear of a possible recurrence of another strike less than one month after the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, suspended its eight-month industrial action over funding of public universities in the country, welfare and other sundry issues.

According to them, their fear is anchored on the said half salaries the federal government paid to their lecturers for October, a development they described as another threat to the reopening of public universities after the strike that paralysed academic activities in such vital sector of the nation for many months.

Feelers from the National Executive Council of ASUU indicated on Sunday that the union is set to meet on Monday, to decide whether to embark on another strike or not