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32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by stevnwigw: 7:06am On Aug 08, 2015 |
A major crisis may soon hit the nation’s
education sector as no fewer than 32 state-
owned tertiary institutions owe their academic
and non-academic workers between four and 23
months’ salaries.
The workers, many of who spoke with our
correspondents on Thursday, complained over the
non-payment of their salaries.
The workers said they might embark on an
indefinite strike if their entitlements were not paid
within a short time.
The situation made members of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities, Ladoke Akintola
University of Technology, Ogbomoso, to demand
for the payment of their 13 months’ salaries from
the Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, and his
Osun State counterpart, Rauf Aregbesola.
LAUTECH is owned by both Oyo and Osun states.
The lecturers also threatened to embark on
industrial action if the governments of the two
states refused to consent to their demand.
Chairman of LAUTECH ASUU, Dr. Oyebamiji
Oyegoke, had said that the lecturers had been
living in poverty as a result of the states’ refusal
to fulfil their financial obligations to them.
Three of the four Kwara State-owned tertiary
institutions – Kwara State University, Malete;
College of Education, Ilorin; College of Education,
Oro, owed their workers four months’ salaries,
while the Kwara State College of Education
(Technical), Lafiagi, owe one month’s salaries.
The Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic
Legal Studies also owes its workers two months’
salaries.
It was also learnt that academic and non-
academic workers at the Kogi State University,
Ayingba; Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja; and Kogi
State College of Education, Ankpa, have yet to
receive their June salaries.
In Edo State, workers at the College of Education,
Ekhiadolor; College of Education, Igueben; College
of Agriculture, Iguoriakhi; and the Institute of
Management and Technology, Usen, are being
owed between two and four months’ salaries.
According to the Chairman, Coalition of State
Owned Tertiary Institutions in Edo, Mr. Fred
Omonuwa, the workers might resort to a protest
as they had done in the past to push for the
payment of their entitlements.
The situation at the Akwa Ibom State University,
Uyo, is different from other states. It was
gathered that many workers employed by the
university’s management with a view to meeting
some accreditation requirements by the National
Universities Commission have not been paid for
the past 16 months.
Even the regular workers, according to a lecturer
who spoke on the condition of anonymity, are
owed two months’ salaries.
Academic and their non-academic counterparts at
the Akwa Ibom State College of Education, Afaha
Nsit, alleged that they had not been paid salaries
for the past 23 months.
The Ekiti State University is being owed four
months’ subventions by the state government.
Chairman of the university’s Senior Staff
Association of Nigerian Universities, Mr. Ismail
Falade, who disclosed this in a text message to
one of our correspondents in Ado-Ekiti, added
that the institution’s workers were being owed
two months’ salaries.
The branch Chairman, Academic Staff Union of
Universities, Prof. Olufayo Olu-Olu, explained that
the institution’s management had paid net salary
for March while the state government paid for
April and May.
The Osun State Polytechnic, Iree; Osun State
Polytechnic, Esa-Oke; College of Education, Ila-
Orangun and College of Education, Ilesa, also owe
their academic and non-academic workers for the
past six months.
The Public Relations Officer of Council of
Academic Staff Unions of Osun State Owned
Tertiary Institutions, Mr. Dotun Omisore, told one
of our correspondents that they had just been
paid 50 per cent of their January salaries while
the state had also not remitted pension
contributions deducted from their salaries since
2013.
The story is the same in Plateau State where all
the seven tertiary institutions owned by the state
-Plateau State University, Bokkos; Plateau State
Polytechnic, Barkin Ladi; College of Arts, Science
and Technology, Kurgwi; College of Education,
Gindiri; College of Agriculture, Garkawa; School of
Health Technology, Pankshin; and School of
Health Technology, Zawan – have not paid their
workers for many months.
It was also learnt that the academic and non-
academic workers at the Tai Solarin College of
Education, Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State, are also angry
over the non-payment of their 48 months’ salary
arrears.
The workers’ unions’ leaders had written to the
state government informing it that they were
withdrawing their services until their salaries were
paid.
But they were shocked to have received a letter
signed by the Secretary to the State Government,
Adeoluwa Taiwo, that the unions’ activities had
been suspended within the campus, as he
claimed they had been infiltrated by the enemies
of the government.
Of the three Ondo State-owned tertiary
institutions, only Adekunle Ajasin University,
Akungba-Akoko, does not owe salaries. The
authorities of Ondo State University of Science
and Technology, Okitipupa; and Rufus Giwa
Polytechnic, Owo, owe their workers two months’
pay.
The Public Relations Officer of RUGIPO, Mr.
Samuel Ojo, confirmed that the institution’s
management had yet to pay the workers May and
June salaries.
Sixty-five lecturers have not been paid for 35
months by the management of the Rivers State
University of Science and Technology, Diobu.
The affected lecturers were recalled after being
sacked for allegedly protesting the reappointment
of the outgoing Vice-Chancellor of the university,
Prof. Barineme Fakae.
The 65 lecturers had claimed that Fakae’s
reappointment did not follow due process.
The Acting Chairman of RSUST ASUU, Dr. Suobere
Puyate, told Saturday PUNCH that apart from the
65 lecturers, who had not been paid, other
lecturers have received their salaries up to June.
Apart from many months of their arrears and
allowances that were allegedly not paid to them,
academic and non-academic workers of the Cross
River University of Technology, Calabar, are being
owed three months’ salaries.
Though it was learnt that the management of
Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, did not
owe the institution’s regular lecturers, Chairman
NDU ASUU, Dr. Beke Sese, said graduate
assistants had not received a dime since they
were employed over two years ago by the
institutions management.
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Re: 32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by chocolateme(f): 7:07am On Aug 08, 2015 |
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Re: 32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by Ddonoflife(m): 7:11am On Aug 08, 2015 |
Bet y..... |
Re: 32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by Obijulius: 7:21am On Aug 08, 2015 |
They will soon look for an excuse to blame the SE for this one too. SMH 3 Likes |
Re: 32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by kettykin: 7:22am On Aug 08, 2015 |
And all this from £20 given to them 44 years ago 2 Likes |
Re: 32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by badnature: 8:32am On Aug 08, 2015 |
na so my brother |
Re: 32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by bonechamberlain(m): 9:09am On Aug 08, 2015 |
that's why the west cannot support an Igbo man being president of Nigeria and also they wouldn't support Biafra. because Biafra might surpass them in few years. 1 Like |
Re: 32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by IGBOSON1: 9:20am On Aug 08, 2015 |
So where in the OP (that has no comma, no full-stop and no paragraph) did it say only tertiary institutions in the South East aren't owed? |
Re: 32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by stevnwigw: 11:06am On Aug 08, 2015 |
God bless SE |
Re: 32 State Tertiary Institutions Are Owing Their Staff Apart From The South East by Udmaster(m): 11:11am On Aug 08, 2015 |
"sophisticated" my foot. 1 Like |
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