Half Salary: Sultan of Sokoto Sends Urgent Message to Nigerian University Lecturers

• Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have been urged not to go on another strike
• According to Sultan of Sokoto and president-general, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), dialogue should be explored
• Recall that lecturers at Nigerian public universities were paid on pro-rata basis from the date that they called off their eight months industrial strike last month

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have been urged by the Sultan of Sokoto not to go on another strike over the payment of half salaries to them last month.

The Sultan made this call following the development in which lecturers at Nigerian public universities were paid on pro-rata basis from the date that they called off their eight months industrial strike last month.

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He disclosed this while speaking with journalists after commissioning a 25-bedroom guest house donated by the family of Babalakin to Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun state, Premium Times reports.

He said:

“It is not today that ASUU started having problems with the government and they will never stop having problems with the government. But anytime there is a problem, you sit down and discuss and find a way out,” he said.

“When you have a problem with anybody, please sit down, dialogue in an honest way and once you have agreed on any other issue, please try to implement what you have agreed. If you feel you cannot, come back to the table again and discuss more and then you have another alternative and solution to such a problem but not embarking on a strike that will affect the children."

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Going further, he urged the lecturers to consider the future of their students in taking their decisions.

“I have been pleading with ASUU, I have been part of the negotiating team with ASUU at the federal government level and I know what we have discussed. But I feel we could do more in being honest to one another in ensuring our children, whom we all care for, get to school and graduate.

“No matter how bad a university is, it will turn out thousands of graduates and if you can bring out so many graduates who are excellent, who are brilliant, why do we have to continue fighting over little issues?”

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Meanwhile, following the payment of half salary to lecturers the National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities is set to meet in Abuja on Monday, November 7..

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

Source: Legit.ng