The American University of Nigeria owned by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday sacked over 400 staff.

This comes three days after another of Atiku's companies, Gotel Communication, a media outfit, sacked 46 staff on Workers Day.

President of AUN, Dawn Dekle, signed the sack letters seen by SaharaReporters, stating that the university no longer required the services of the affected staff. 

Some of the disengaged workers told SaharaReporters that they were fired without severance benefits despite serving the university for about 10 years.

However, Vice President, University Relations of the institution, Abubakar Abba Tahir, denied the allegation. 

He said, "Ask them to show you their disengagement letters.  

"Until now, AUN has operated a student-staff ratio which balance had continued to affect the sustainability of the university

"It would not be realistic for AUN to continue to anchor its administrative structure on an over-bloated personnel whose role do not have significant effect on the philosophy of a development university.  

"Thus, consequent upon the university’s new Governing Council vote to restructure the institution in line with its agenda for sustainability, a process of workforce rationalisation had been in the pipeline.

"It is now time for the university to look back, look around and look ahead to ensure that realistic and globally competitive administrative practices can be achieved in structure, strategy and focus." 

He said, "Ask them to show you their disengagement letters.

festacman:
Atiku means Jobs!

Nigeria dodged a bullet.

Nukilia:
The money shared during the PDP era was used by Obasanjo and Atiku were used to set up universities.... The public universities were struggling to survive then while ASUU was destroying the lives of the students with strikes.

The cycle continues

vedaxcool:


The same people whose lives were destroyed can get a job because they are too old for entry level jobs, to think the same individuals strut all over the place like they made Nigeria a paradise.

Nukilia:


The ripple effect of long term backwardness is crystal clear in the way our society is being run.

senatordave1:


Tinubu will always be better than atiku

vedaxcool:
Sad as it is, just here to read the usual braying of dishonest folks who hates Fulani Muslims but will readily explain away everything perpetuated by their son Atiku.