ASUU Strike: Ngige and his many lies.

According to Statistica, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1263219/academic-staff-at-universities-in-nigeria-by-category/, there are 39,784 academic staff in federal universities as of 2019. There were 7,125 Professors, 3,377 Readers (Associate Professors), 7,368 Senior Lecturers, and 21,914 Lecturer 1 and below. The current number can't be too different since there was not much employment in public universities since IPPIS was forced on the universities in January 2020.

Now let's look at the average gross and net salary of each category of lecturers and do a bit of arithmetic. The average monthly gross and take-home salary of professors is about N497,000 and N385,000 respectively. The average monthly gross and take-home salary of Readers is about N374,000 and N286,000 respectively. The average monthly gross and take-home salary of Senior Lecturers is about N307,000 and N237,000 respectively. The average monthly gross and take-home salary of Lecturer I and below is about N172,000 and N138,000.

If you multiply the monthly gross of the different categories by the number and multiply the obtained figures by 12 months, then add them up, that will give you about N130bn. That implies that out of the N320.7bn budgeted for university personnel in 2022, the academic staff consumed less than half of it. If that amount is increased by Prof. Briggs' committee by 180% as claimed by Ngige, you know what the figure will be. That is simple arithmetic. It is definitely not N1.2tn.

Don't allow Buhari's government to use Ngige to deceive you with figures. They can end the ASUU strike today if they wish to end it. The ball is in their court.

©Amoka

Strike continues, infinito

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