A fresh war may be brewing between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government over the government’s decision to pay lecturers half salaries for the month of October, 2022.
Naija News understands that the leadership of ASUU is said to have summoned an emergency meeting of its National Executive Council in Abuja.
It was gathered that the meeting is expected to decide its response to the half October salaries paid by the federal government.
The National President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, had said: “Half salaries were paid, no reasons were given whatsoever. We learnt that Ngige wrote to the office of the Accountant General and Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System and told them to only pay us for the period when we called off the strike. We heard there was a letter to that effect but we haven’t gotten it yet. We are going to summon a meeting.”
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