The Vice-Chancellor of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, Professor Ibrahim Hassan Garba, has assured staff that the university will no longer face delays in staff promotions and welfare matters. He said the university management has designed a new system that will make promotion exercises smooth and timely, unlike in the past when staff often
Bayero University, Kano (BUK), says it will construct 500 housing units for its staff to tackle a long-standing accommodation shortage. Vice-Chancellor Professor Haruna Musa announced the plan during the university’s second Registry Roundtable Discussion held at the Senate Chamber. He described the scheme as one of the most ambitious welfare projects in the institution’s history,
University lecturers in Nigeria are threatening another action with the Federal Government over poor wages, saying their pay no longer reflects economic realities. The three registered unions, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Congress of University Academics (CONUA), and the Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), claim that salaries have remained
Professors in Nigerian universities have called for their salaries to be raised to at least N2.5 million per month, describing current pay as unsustainable. The demand came as members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) staged protests on several campuses on Tuesday, criticising the government’s failure to implement the renegotiated 2009 FGN–ASUU agreement.
Adjunct lecturers at Atiba University, a privately owned institution in Oyo State, have decried the non-payment of their salaries spanning at least three concluded semesters. No fewer than 117 staff members have come together to demand better treatment and compensation for their work. They told FIJ on condition of anonymity that James Ojebode, the institution’s
