TOP STORY: Confusion as lecturers get ‘half-month pay’ as first salary after ASUU strike | TheCable
have tackled the federal government for not paying them full salaries.
ASUU had embarked on strike on February 14 to press home the demand for improved funding for universities, review of salaries for lecturers, among other issues. Amid the back-and-forth over the union’s demands, the federal government had threatened not to pay the lecturers for the strike period, but a review of the decision was said to be under consideration.AdvertisementMembers of the union, who spoke with TheCable on Thursday, said despite the suspension of the strike, the government is yet to pay them full salaries.“I’m yet to get mine but some of us who have received theirs got half salaries for October.
A lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka , who did not want to be named, also confirmed that he did not get full salary.“What I got is not exactly half of my salary. But then, it’s not up to my usual salary. Basically, they didn’t pay full salary, that’s the right word for it. The month was also not specified,” the lecturer said.Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU president, was not available for comment as of the of this report as his phone number was not reachable.
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