STRIKING NON-TEACHING STAFF OF THE NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES THREATEN TO DISRUPT 2018 JAMB EXAM

The striking non-teaching staff of the Nigerian universities have threatened to disrupt the 2018 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s, JAMB, Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME, which will hold from Friday.

The Chairman, Joint Action Committee ,JAC, Non-Teaching Staff of the Nigerian Universities, Mr. Samson Ugwoke made the threat at a meeting of the National JAC with the Principal Branch Officers in Abuja.

Mr. Ugwoke said that the threat had become imperative as the Federal Government had continued to renege on the agreement it entered with the unions.

According to him, JAC has decided that no activities would take place in the universities.

Mr. Ugwoke also called on the Federal Government to do the needful.

 The non-teaching staff of Nigerian universities are made up of the Non Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities ,NASU, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU and National Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT.

 STELLA IGBOKWE