Universities in Nigeria are facing a severe staff crisis as
hundreds of teachers leave to seek greener pastures in foreign countries
despite a high number of retirements at the varsities.
In separate interviews with newsmen on Sunday, the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) chapters corroborated this, saying the
scarcity was caused by a surge in lecturers leaving Nigeria and concerns about
the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System.
ASUU at Usmanu Danfodiyo University in Sokoto said about 100
teachers had departed, while the union at the Federal University of Gusau in
Zamfara said the institution needed about 1,000 academics to cover the gaps
left by those who had left.
The union at the Federal University of Agriculture,
Abeokuta, Ogun State, said the institution had over 350 academic vacancies,
while 27 lecturers left two faculties at the University of Lagos and 100
workers at the University of Uyo fled the country.
According to the union, there are over 500 academic openings
at the University of Ilorin in Kwara State, and both academic and non-academic
workers at the Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology are fleeing
the country.
Dr. Rotimi Olorunsola, Chairman of the union in Olusegun
Agagu University of Science and Technology in Okitipupa, Ondo State, stated
that many of the university’s workers, both academic and non-academic, had
gone.
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