HALF-SALARY: ASUU EXCO MEETS, LECTURERS MULL SIT-AT-HOME

The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to meet in Abuja today.

The meeting will be held at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja.

Leaders of the union, who spoke to Journalists on Sunday, said the lecturers would decide whether or not to resume strike following the payment of half salary by the government.

The purpose of the emergency meeting is to discuss the payment of half-salaries to the lecturers.

Already, some branches across the country have held a congress to decide on the next steps to take.

The branch at the University of Jos, for instance, resolved that the lecturers stay home pending the payment of withheld salaries by the government; the branch at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University resolved that the 2021-2022 academic session be abolished, and the Gombe State University ASUU chapter  resolved that the examination results of students be seized.

 Meanwhile, the Federal Government has commenced plans to pay the Congress of University Academics their withheld salaries and rectify the “half salaries” paid to all lecturers under the newly registered union for the month of October 2022.