The non-release of nearly eight months’ salaries for university lecturers has been condemned by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
ASUU attributed the withholding of lecturers’ salaries to its 2022 strike action.
In a statement by ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, it was highlighted that this issue is one among several affecting the Nigerian University System, NUS.
Osodeke disclosed that this matter was addressed during ASUU’s National Executive Council meeting held at the University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Borno State, from Saturday, August 19 to Sunday, August 20, 2023.
According to Osodeke, ASUU NEC restated that “the application of the anti-labour ‘No-Work-No-Pay’ policy to academics disregards two undeniable facts: (i) only the teaching aspect of academics’ work was suspended during the strike action, and (ii) with the strike being suspended due to interventions by the then Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives (now Chief of Staff to the President and Visitor to Federal Universities), Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, and other well-meaning Nigerians, the academics have compensated for the lost time under extremely difficult economic conditions”.