Some of the lecturers of most of the public universities in Nigeria who are under the umbrella of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have been thrown into some serious anger and bewilderment as their payment of their October salaries had been enumerated for only 18 working days in the month of October by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
One of the senior members of the ASUU organisation at one of the branches of an old generation university in Nigeria had confirmed this development to Newsmen under confidence and he had also noted that the government only paid half salaries for the month of October.
“The much I know, those who have called me said they were paid only for eighteen days for the month of October,” he said.
Another academic staff member added: “Yes, I only received 18 working days salary, that’s what they paid me; my colleague received the same.”
It can also be recalled that the ASUU had called off its eight-month-old strike on October 14, 2022, after the intervention of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila.
And amid the completely low morale among the returning members of the academic staff, this development may not sit well with many who had wanted the distortion in academic calendar stopped.
Meanwhile, ASUU has called for a Congress on Tuesday next week in its various branches to deliberate on the next step it will take.
In another report, against the backdrop of its decision to suspend the recent industrial action it had earlier embarked on, the academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asserted that it does not trust the Federal Government to keep its promise to university lecturers, due to its failure to honour previous agreements.
President of the union, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known yesterday when speaking, at the resumed meeting between the union, Acting Accountant General of the Federation, Sylva Okolieaboh, and Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday, in Abuja.