The Federal Government has announced a 23% salary increment for striking university lecturers.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, noted this on Tuesday, adding that the government had granted a 35% increment to professors.
He was, however, silent on the government’s insistence on no-work-no-pay rule, in the context of the lecturers’ demand for arrears for the six months they have been on strike.
But a statement from the ministry later said it had been referred to a committee now set up to work on the crisis.
Adamu disclosed this while speaking during the meeting with vice-chancellors and other stakeholders in the university system.
He added, “The Federal Government can only afford a 23.5% salary increase for all category of the workforce in Federal Universities, except for the professorial cadre which will enjoy a 35% upward review.
“Henceforth, allowances that pertain to ad-hoc duties of the academic and non-academic staff shall be paid as and when due by the Governing Councils of Universities to which such services are rendered and to the staff who perform
them.
“That a sum of 150 billion Naira shall be provided for in the 2023 Budget as
funds for the revitalization of Federal Universities, to be disbursed to the
Institutions in the First Quarter of the year, and that a sum of 50 billion Naira shall be provided for in the 2023 Budget for the payment of outstanding areas of earned academic allowances, to be paid
in the First Quarter of the year.”
