The Academic Staff Union Of Universities, ASUU, will on
Tuesday (today) begin protest over the half-salary paid to them by the Federal
Government in October this year.
The union has also declared lecturer free days in its
branches across the country in a bid to draw the attention of Nigerians to the
move by the Government.
Recall that ASUU had a few weeks ago, raised the alarm that
the Federal Government turned the university lecturers to casual workers by
paying them a half-salary.
But in its response, the FG noted that they were paid in
pro-rata for the number of days the lecturers worked in October, having
suspended its prolonged industrial action on October 14.
Efforts by some members of the union to embark on another
strike, proved abortive on Monday last week, as the National Executive Council
of the union ruled out the possibility of another industrial action in
cognizance of students who just returned to campuses.
ASUU president, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, who confirmed
the protest and lecturer free days yesterday, said each branch of the union
across the country is expected to pick its own date.
Our correspondent gathered that the University of Lagos
branch, would observe its lecturer free day and a protest titled, ‘The
casualisation of intellectualism in Nigeria’ at the campus today.
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