NASU, SSANU Begin Nationwide Protest Over Four-Month Withheld Salaries

 

The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) are currently protesting over their four-month withheld salaries. 

 

The protest commenced today and will take place in universities all over the country.

 

As early as 7:30am, the union members converged on the popular Unity Fountain, Abuja from where they would march on the Federal Ministries of Education and Labour and Employment.

 

General Secretary of NASU, Peters Adeyemi said letters would be presented to both ministries. 

 

The workers are asking the Federal Government to pay “us what you owe  us.”

The unions said meetings with the government over the withheld salaries have not yielded positive results. 

 

Former Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen Chris Ngige invoked the ‘No work, no pay’ policy when the four university based unions embarked on a prolonged strike in 2022.

 

Salaries of members of the university-based unions who participated in the strike were withheld by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari. 

 

But President Bola Tinubu in October 2023 granted amnesty to the university workers and directed that four months of the withheld salaries be paid to them.