BREAKING: ASUU Set To Hold Emergency Meeting

The National Executive Council of the University Teachers Union (ASUU) will meet soon to discuss eight months of half payment of salary by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.

ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke confirmed his development to PUNCH on Saturday, February 4, 2023.

However, the union’s National Executive Council explained that it had not yet set a date for its meeting.

“We (NEC) had met before now and reached resolutions but will meet again to decide on the next step to take, and when we do so, we will let the public know.

“But what I can assure you is that we will meet very soon, and take a decision on this issue of withheld salaries. The FG must pay up these debts. It is our right.

“We have given the government some time to see if there will be any improvement, but they have done nothing. We are collating reports from our members and will take action,” he said.

Lamenting on the situation, he said Nigerian university faculty are going through a difficult time.

“Our members are passing through difficult times while they are doing the same work the FG said they did not do and were not going to be paid for.

“We are doing all these in the interest of the country but this will not be forever. We will certainly meet very soon and take a proper decision at that meeting,” he added.

He said there had been no progress in negotiations between the lecturers and the federal government, pointing out that the legal battle between them would continue in February.

Dr. Dele Ashiru, ASUU chairman of the University of Lagos branch, also spoke about teacher salary garnishment and said he was shocked that the federal government had to take a step back on the issue.

He also noted that the morale of lecturers at his university had become “very low.”