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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Uyo branch, has joined its counterpart across the country to protest against the Federal Government\u2019s failure to complete the renegotiated 2009 agreement.<\/p>\n

The union ordered the campuses to be shut and suspended examinations scheduled for today, August 26, 2025.<\/p>\n

The lecturers mainly professors, associate professors and senior lecturers who came out in their numbers in early hours of Tuesday, where seen marching along the town campus of the university, the university annex and Ikpa road.<\/p>\n

They displayed placards with various inscriptions such as \u2018Our salaries are too poor\u2019, \u2018Pay us sustainable living salaries\u2019, \u2018Treat lecturers with some dignity\u2019, \u2018We are FG lecturers and not borrowers\u2019, \u2018Government please sign and implement our renegotiated agreement,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

Addressing the protest at the university main gate, town campus, the chairperson of the branch, Prof. Opeyemi Olajide lamented that federal university lecturers in Nigeria have been on a fixed salary for over 16 years without any increment despite worsening economic realities.<\/p>\n

He also expressed dismay over the Federal Government\u2019s refusal to complete the renegotiated 2009 agreement with the union or renegotiate their salary since 2012 it was due.<\/p>\n

Olajide lamented that government had refused to pay third party deductions for salaries paid almost a year ago and arrears of promotion, noting that the union would no longer allow government to treat members welfare with disdain.<\/p>\n

He therefore ordered all the students who came for their Computer Based Test, CBT, exams to go home, stressing that no examination will hold, even as he threatened that the union may embark on an indefinite strike if nothing is done to address their concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, university lecturers are staging protest to let the world know how the Federal Government is treating us with disdain. Federal Government of Nigeria has decided to destroy the public university system as it did to public primary and secondary schools. Federal Government still withheld our salaries for three and half months after we have done the job. We have been on same salary for 16 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Federal Government has refused to fund infrastructure in public universities. Look at where you are taking your exams, is it befitting? The Federal Government has refused to fund infrastructure in public universities, we are not happy about it.<\/p>\n

So there is no examination today, go home!,\u201d the Uni Uyo ASUU leader told the students.<\/p>\n

Also speaking, Dr Nwachukwu Anyim, former ASUU chairperson of the branch, described as hypocritical and wicked, the Federal Government\u2019s move to review the salaries of political office holders who according to him already earn jumbo salaries, leaving university lecturers out.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cIf you expect university lecturers to earn the same salary for over 15 years and you are still imagining reviewing salaries of political office holders, that is wickedness of the highest order. Those who are already earning humongous salaries? You are even thinking of reviewing it, that is wickedness!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing this to tell Nigerians that we don\u2019t like going on strike but there is no option. My salaries have been withheld, loans that I took, I\u2019ve ended up paying for that loan. Then the deducted salaries and the deductions are in someone\u2019s pocket or bank account \u2013 that\u2019s wickedness.<\/p>\n

\u201cYet we still go to class to teach our students. Those in power that maltreat us should know that power is transient. Where are the Ngiges\u2019 of this world today?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Uyo branch, has joined its counterpart across the country to protest against the Federal Government\u2019s failure to complete the renegotiated 2009 agreement. The union ordered the campuses to be shut and suspended examinations scheduled for today, August 26, 2025. 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