There were speculations that the university lecturers would suspend the strike after the burial ceremony for an ex-ASUU President, Prof. Festus Iyayi, who was killed in an accident involving the Kogi State governor's convoy.
However, sources in the union who spoke to our correspondents on Saturday insisted that the strike continues.
The Chairman, ASUU, University of Benin, Dr. Tony Monye-Emina said, "The strike has not been called off. The authority (of the institution) is following government's directive; we are not shifting our stand. It is not a local strike.
"It is not true we are calling off the strike. How can we be holding a meeting tonight? The burial is going on and it continues tomorrow (today)."
Also, ASUU in Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, vowed not to obey government's order that lecturers should return to classroom on Monday.
The Chairman, ASUU, OOU chapter, Dr. Nasir Adesola said the lecturers would not succumb to threats by government to sack them.
Adesola, who is also the South-West Coordinator, ASUU, stressed that since the lecturers did not go on strike in the first instance because of government, they would not return to work by coercion from government.
He stated that the lecturers would only go back to the classroom when the government had met their demands.
"We didn't go on strike because of government order. The reasons for which we embarked on the strike have not been discharged by the government.
Those orders of government are just part of executive recklessness. We are not returning to work on Monday," Adesola said.
Similarly, the ASUU Chairman in Enugu State University of Technology, Prof. Gab Agu, said lecturers would not resume on Monday. He said it was a rumour that the union would call of the strike..
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