State universities kick as SSANU rejects a 23.5% salary raise

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, which is on strike, and the federal government reached a deal on Tuesday, but the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities declared the state governments would not put it into effect.

Yusuf Ali (SAN), the chairman of the committee, revealed this to one of our correspondents while discussing the 35% raise for professors and the 23.5% rise for other university employees, including lecturers.

Ali made this statement at the same time that Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim, president of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, rejected the wage increase suggested by the government in an interview with The PUNCH on Wednesday.

GOGAN Media.