The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced it will embark on a one-day nationwide protest rally over the federal government decision to implement a “no-work, no-pay” policy for lecturers in the country.
According to ASUU, the protest would hold at different branch levels of the union across public university campuses nationwide, with lectures suspended for the one-day protest.
Confirming the development, the chairperson of ASUU, University of Lagos branch, Dele Ashir, stated in a letter that the branch would protest on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.
The letter which was addressed to “all stakeholders” noted that the special congress/ protest rally against the casualization of intellectualism in Nigeria will hold on “Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at Julius Berger auditorium.”
According to him, the protest rally is to draw the attention of Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora to ASUU’s strong dissatisfaction with the Buhari Government’s attempt at casualization of the academics in the country by using ‘no-work, no-pay policy’ to remunerate them.
Recall that the Federal Government had paid only half salary for the month of October to the public university lecturers, who had been on industrial action for eight months and returned to work on October 14.
