Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have embarked on a nationwide protest to highlight what they described as the Federal Government’s persistent neglect of its long-standing demands.
At the University of Jos, members of the union staged a demonstration before addressing journalists, where they announced their outright rejection of the recently introduced Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund loan scheme
ASUU branch chairperson, Joseph Molwus, said the initiative was not a solution but an attempt to push lecturers deeper into financial hardship.
At the University of Lagos, ASUU members who joined the nationwide protest demanded better treatment of lecturers and the education sector.
The placard-bearing lecturers demanded the Federal Government’s payment of arrears, improved welfare and renegotiation of the 2009 FG-ASUU agreement.
The situation was the same at the University of Benin in Edo State and the Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State, where protesting lecturers sent a message to the Federal Government to honour the 2009 agreement or risk another strike action.
News edited by Favour Owonibi