The National Union of Banks, Insurance Employees (NUBIFIE) has said it will mobilise its members to join the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in solidarity against the prolonged Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike.
The decision which will shut down banking and insurance services across the country is expected to force President Muhammadu Buhari’s hand into taking “concrete” steps to end the prolonged ASUU strike.
“However, if after the one-day protest by NLC on this issue and nothing is done, the union will have no other option than to call out all our members in banks, insurance, and other financial institutions in solidarity with ASUU,” NUBIFIE disclosed in a statement co-signed by its national president, Anthony Abakpa, and general secretary, Mohammed Sheikh, on Sunday.
NUBIFIE expressed its concern over the psychological trauma the prolonged strike would continue to have on the students and their academic performance.
The Nigeria Labour Congress had earlier threatened to organise a nationwide protest on July 26 and 27 over the failure of the president’s regime to end the strike.
“We have scheduled as follows the national days of protest to get our children back to school and support our unions in Nigeria’s public universities fighting for quality education. The dates are on July 26 and 27 at all the state capitals of the federation and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, and take-off points are at the NLC State Secretariats and the Labour House, Abuja,” the NLC announced on Sunday.
