ASUU commences NEC meeting

By Biola Adebayo On Nov 7, 2022

ASUU , TETFund , inclusion , private varsities , projects — (File photo) ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, addressing the media.

The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has commenced its meeting.

The meeting started around 12:40 pm on Monday afternoon.

A member of NEC made this known in an interview with our correspondent under anonymity. “The meeting just started”, the source said.

The PUNCH had earlier reported how ASUU summoned an emergency NEC meeting following the payment of “half salaries” to lecturers by the government.
The union had described the October 2022 salaries as “amputated and insensitive.”

Justifying the government’s decision, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, noted that the government paid the lecturers pro-rata.

But human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, who happens to be the lead counsel to ASUU, in a statement released on Sunday, explained why the no-work-no-pay policy could not be applicable to ASUU.