- The union praised Nigerian academics for their courage, resilience, and determination in enduring economic, social, and emotional challenges due to unpaid salaries
- ASUU attributed past strike actions to governments’ failure to honor collective bargaining principles established by the ILO and domesticated in Nigeria’s labor law
University lecturers’ pay for nearly eight months have not been released, according to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
According to ASUU, lecturers’ salaries were withheld as a result of its 2022 strike action.
Such was one of the problems Emmanuel Osodeke, President of ASUU, listed as impacting the Nigerian University System (NUS).
The topic was discussed, according to Osodeke, at the ASUU National Executive Council meeting that took place at the University of Maiduguri in Maiduguri, Borno State, from August 19 to 20, 2023.
According to Osodeke, ASUU NEC reiterated that “the application of the anti-labour ‘No-Work-No-Pay’ policy to academics ignores the indisputable facts that (i) only the teaching component of academics’ work was suspended during the strike action, and (ii) with the suspension of the strike through interventions by the then Hon Speaker of Federal House of Representatives (now Chief of Staff to Mr. President and Visitor to Federal Universities), Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, and other well-meaning Nigerians, the academics have made up for the lost ground under the most excruciating economic conditions”.