Nigeria, March 11 -- The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has approved a one-week nationwide warning strike to protest what it described as a 'selective payment' of parts of the university workers' withheld salaries.

Last week, the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) issued a one-week ultimatum for the government to pay its members, PREMIUM TIMES reported.

However, at the end of the ultimatum last weekend, SSANU's NEC approved a warning strike at its meeting held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA).

"If nothing is done by the Federal Government to positively address this...