Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions (NASU) at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have staged a protest over their withheld salaries.
Also involved in the protest is the university’s branch of the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAATS).
The three unions took to the UNILAG gate on Wednesday to block vehicular movement into and out of the campus.
The protesting staff displayed various placards where they lamented the federal government’s failure to release their withheld salaries.
In 2022, the salaries of university staff who embarked on an eight-month strike were withheld by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
In October 2023, President Bola Tinubu directed the release of four months of the withheld eight-month pay of all lecturers.
A joint committee of SSANU and NASU first raised the alarm that the government released four months of withheld salaries to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) without extending the same gesture to other non-academic staff.
The unions issued a seven-day ultimatum on March 1, began a one-week warning strike on March 11, and then a nationwide action.
Muhammed Ibrahim, president of SSANU, and Peters Adeyemi, the general secretary of NASU, both stated that their February 13 letter to Femi Gbajabiamila, the president’s chief of staff (CoS), and Tahir Mamman, the minister for education, had not been responded to.
NAATS, on Wednesday, joined the duo of SSANU and NASU to begin a three-day warning strike today.
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