Some lecturers under the auspices of the Congress of University Academics (CONUA) at the Obafemi Awolowo University did not observe the work-free day directed by the national leadership of ASUU.
The CONUA Secretary at the OAU, Dr Henry Oripeloye, said, “Our members are not part of ASUU’s work-free day. They are attending to students.”
The ASUU Chairman in the institution, Dr Adeola Egbedokun, had told journalists that members of the union were observing an industrial action to press home their demand for the payment of earned academic allowances before the work-free day directive by the ASUU national body.
Despite their refusal to comply with the directive, most of the classes did not take place on the campus of the institution. Before the ASUU work-free day directive, members of the union in OAU had been on strike in protest against the non-payment of the earned academic allowance by the management of the institution.