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The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) says its supports the ongoing industrial strike by lecturers of the Lagos State-owned Universities in their struggle to win the full implementation and domestication of the December 2025 ASUU-Federal Government agreement including the Consolidated Academic Tools Allowance (CATA).
This strike was embarked upon after the expiration of strike notice and deadline issued by the Lagos State-owned universities Joint Campus Group of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to the Lagos State Government that lapsed on September 10, 2026.
In a statement singed by the National Chairman, Comrade Rufus Olusesan and the Publicity Secretary, Comrade Chinedu Bosah, observed that the lecturers embarked on the strike due to the Lagos State Government refused to engage the lecturers in any meaningful discussion including the refusal to implement the 2025 agreement.
The group blamed the state government for the strike and the disruption of academic activities in Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) and Lagos State University of Education (LASUED).
“It is a fact that Lagos State Government has enough resources to meet and implement the agreement including funding education adequately to guarantee free and quality education for all. What is militating against this social responsibility is the neo-liberal agenda that relegates social services to the background and open them to commercialisation and private interest.
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“CDWR demands the adequate funding of social welfare programmes including education, healthcare, housing etc., to meet the needs of all. If Lagos were to be a country, it would be the 8th largest economy in Africa but it has very little to show for it,” it noted.
The group appealed to students, parents and the general public to actively support the struggle of the lecturers with the aim of forcing the state government to meet their demands.
It also called on the striking lecturers to make the strike an active one such that they hold programme of activities that include protests, rallies, press conferences etc., as a means of rallying and mobilizing public support to save public education.
They also included in their demands the immediate and unconditional reinstatement of ASUU-LASU executives who were victimized for the past seven years by the LASU management and the state government.
CDWR added: ”We also call on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and pro-labour organisations to actively support the strike and the overall struggle to save public education from collapse.’’
