The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has constituted a seven-member committee to address what it tagged a smear media campaign against the union.
The committee, with members drawn across various campuses, is named; “Rapid Response Committee,” and it is to be chaired by Ade Adejumo, a professor at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH).
In a leaked letter of appointment addressed to one of the nominees, and signed by the union’s president, Emmanuel Osodeke, he tasked the committee with the responsibility to develop strategies to tackle the alleged media campaign against the union’s decision to continue with the industrial action.
ASUU has in the recent time become a subject of criticism among Nigerians following the declaration of an indefinite strike action after almost seven months of staying away from work.
Many have accused the union of being insensitive to the plight of Nigerian students whose academic pursuits have been stalled since…
