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The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU on Sunday declared a nationwide strike action to commence the same day – Sunday August 13 2017.  The Union took the decision to declare the strike after deliberations at its National Executive Council, NEC meeting held at University of Abuja on August 12 2017, ASUU National President,  Comrade Biodun Ogunyemi said.  Ogunyemi in a document titled, “Strike Bulletin No.1”, the strike action is to be a total, comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no form of academic activities including teaching, attendance of any meeting, conduct and supervision of any examination at any level, supervision of project or thesis at any level should take place at any of the nation’s universities. In the bulletin signed by Ogunyemi,  ASUU recalled that it had to embark on a six month strike between July and December 2013 and the strike was suspended when government signed an MoU with the union. _“Of all the items contained in the M...