Withheld salaries: SSANU, NASU cripple varsities activities
NON-teaching staff has crippled activities in the nation's universities, especially those owned by the federal government, over the non-payment of four and a half months salaries withheld by the government. Some of the affected institutions included University of Lagos, UNILAG, the Nigeria French Language Village, Badagry, Lagos State, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, CMUL, Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufo-Alike Ikwo, AE-FUNAI, in Ebony, Federal University Lokoja, FUL, Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, University of Ilorin, UNILORIN, Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, and Federal University of Lafia, FULafia. At the UNILAG, the protesting workers, under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Allied Institutions, NASU led by their leaders, marched from the Senate Building to the main gate of the institution, chanting var...