The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have said that Nigerian university professors are tge lowest paid globally. The academic union had made this known via its Yola branch leader, El-Maude Gambi Jubreel, during a press briefing in Modibbo Adama University (MAU).
He also explained that the exclusive wisdom behind the 2022 eight-month strike action was to compel the federal government of Nigeria to implement the Memorandum of Action (MoA) of February 7, 2019, which the Union and FGN agreed upon without any coercion.
He went further to add that the union was appealing for the government to implement the deal they had agreed upon in the years, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022 with the federal government.
What They’re Saying
Jubreel had lamented the situation in saying, “Our members have been on the same salary for over 15 years; the last time our salaries were reviewed was in 2009.”
He then went on to narrate how lecturers in Nigeria were the least paid among their peers in Africa and the world in general as a professor earned less than $300 per month going by the current rate of N1,489 per dollar in a month.
In his words, “Many Nigerians do not understand the strike it had been embarking on for years, there is a need for the public to understand what the struggle of ASUU is all about and join hands with ASUU to save the educational sector in Nigeria and place Nigeria on the development path.”
