SSANU Accuse FG Attempt To Privatize University Staff Schools, Stage 5 Days Protest.

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Scores of members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff of Universities (NASU), University of Ibadan, on Monday,  staged a protest on the non-implementation of a court ruling on the University of Ibadan Staff School. 

The Union leaders explained that, despite the claim of the federal government to have released #25 billion to all unions in the federal universities to take care of the earned allowances of all staff since last year, it is disheartening to note that the fund was boycotted.

They stressed that, the fund was released to the universities and not to the union. Which  subjected the template to query as 80 percent of it is meant for teaching staff while 20 percent is meant for the non teaching staff and which is creating a lot of tension in the university system across the country.

Mr. Wale Akinremi, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), University of Ibadan, maintained that the federal government is denying them of their right and the union is ready to continue in  nation wide protest for 5 days.

He also disclosed that, on December 5, 2016, the National Industrial Court ruled that government was supposed to be paying salaries of the staff in the university staff schools, but up till now government has not implemented the court judgment. Accusing Federal government of wanting to privatize university staff schools in Nigeria.


Also addressing newsmen at the scene, Oguntoye Abiodun, An education stakeholder, urged vice president, Yemi Osinbanjo to use his professorial knowledge to profer lasting solution to all crisis rocking the educational sectors in Nigeria; as failure to do so will account to the country sitting on a gunpowder.


Noble FM's Micheal Oladejo reported that, the protesting SSANU and NASU members, as well as the affected teachers of the U.I staff school, were seen displaying placards with different inscriptions whose facial expressions summarised.

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