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UI Workers Protest Over Unpaid Allowances
The Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU), Non Academics Staff Union (NASU) and National Association of Academics Technologists (NAAT) of the University of Ibadan have staged a protest over the non-payment of allowances by the school management.
Protesting Members of Senior Staff Association of Universities (SSANU), Non Academics Staff Union (NASU) and National Association of Academics Technologists (NAAT).
It was gathered that, academic and administrative activities were grounded in reaction to the non-payment of June allowances.
The union members locked the four entrances into the university and prevented movement into the lecture halls as early as 7:30am.
Their grouse was based on what they termed ‘unfulfilled promise’ by Professor Isaac Adewole, the vice chancellor. They said he promised to increase the top-up allowances paid to workers, only to find out that the university authorities did not pay anything in June.
In a quick response, the management of the university, through the Director of Communication, Tunji Oladejo, said the management is planning to add some money to the regular salary for the month of June.
Oladejo said: “However, this plan could not be realized because at the time the regular salary and the promotion arrears were paid in June, 2015, only a balance of N79,573,036.42 remained which was grossly inadequate to meet the needed amount of N146,580,000 to pay the top up for senior and junior staff respectively.”
In a recent incidence, thousands of protesting Olabisi Onabanjo University students seized the Sagamu-Ilisan stretch of the Lagos-Ore expressway as they protested at the scene of a ghastly accident that claimed the lives of 12 students of the institution
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